μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • JewishNeuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

12 finer motifs beneath it
Heavenly maidens are not jealousWoman jealous of a fair maid in her house. Fears her attraction for her husbandJealousy of rival wivesDecision 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
Filed beside it
The shrewish wifeThe overbearing wifeThe nagging wifeThe disobedient wifeThe obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.)The quarrelsome 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
Travels with
Fratricide motivated by love-jealousy. (Cf. T257.)

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