μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The quarrelsome wife or husband.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T256

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-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 dog Quarrelsome wife conquered by silent husband Medicine against quarrelling: the wife must take one dose and keep it in her mouth for ten minutes as soon as her husband is angry Quarrelsome wife reproved by a good whipping
Filed beside it
The shrewish wife The overbearing wife The nagging wife The disobedient wife The obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.) Jealous wife or husband The curious wife The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.) The hypocritical wife. Shows what she has done for her husband, but not what she has done for herself Jewels of Cornelia. She shows her children as her jewels Beautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradise The neglected wife The silent wife Wife cannot keep secret The spendthrift wife

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