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Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

6 finer motifs beneath it
The husband shows his wife poison to avoid: she takes it and diesHusband forbids wife to ride on the dog: she immediately does so and is bittenMan with obedient wife looks young; with disobedient, oldMan forbids wife to open chest. Loaded crossbow placed in it. She opens it and is killedHusband warns wife not to enter empty furnace. She does so and it falls in upon herDisobedient wife punished
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The shrewish wifeThe overbearing wifeThe nagging wifeThe obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.)The quarrelsome wife or husbandJealous wife or husbandThe curious wifeThe ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.)The hypocritical wife. Shows what she has done for her husband, but not what she has done for herselfJewels of Cornelia. She shows her children as her jewelsBeautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradiseThe neglected wifeThe silent wifeWife cannot keep secretThe spendthrift wife

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