μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
  • general Penzer III 99
Within the index

Filed under Jealous wife or husband.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Wife exposes bald head of second wife to disgrace her. Hair marvelously regrowsJealous wife (mistress) transforms rival to hound. (Cf. B182.1.0.2.)
Filed beside it
Heavenly maidens are not jealousWoman jealous of a fair maid in her house. Fears her attraction for her husbandDecision not to punish a jealous husband: he already suffers enoughHusband jealous of wife who goes to confession is punished by the priest. When the husband sees the priest take her behind the altar to punish her he volunteers to take the punishment. The wife says, "Pound him well. I am a terrible sinner."Jealous husband kills nightingale which his wife gets up to hearJealous king causes massacre of handsome young captivesHusband's unjust jealousy forces wife to commit adulteryJealous husband objects to wife's enjoyment of intercourse: thinks she has had previous experienceJealous husband spends all his earnings as skillful smith bribing courtiers not to talk to his wife, and at last locks her up in hut in the forestTrickster sends jealous wife after husband: steals food. (Cf. K343.)Jealous wife ties husband to her so that he cannot get away to meet another woman
Travels with
Co-wife forces pregnant woman to perform lowly tasks. (Cf. T257.2.)

wander