μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
  • general Penzer II 159f., 180
Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Quarrel between husband and wife explained by their having been previously a tiger and a dogQuarrelsome wife conquered by silent husbandMedicine against quarrelling: the wife must take one dose and keep it in her mouth for ten minutes as soon as her husband is angryQuarrelsome wife reproved by a good whipping
Filed beside it
The shrewish wifeThe overbearing wifeThe nagging wifeThe disobedient wifeThe obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.)Jealous 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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