μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Jealous wife or husband.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T257

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Jewish Neuman
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

12 finer motifs beneath it
Heavenly maidens are not jealous Woman jealous of a fair maid in her house. Fears her attraction for her husband Jealousy of rival wives Decision not to punish a jealous husband: he already suffers enough Husband 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 hear Jealous king causes massacre of handsome young captives Husband's unjust jealousy forces wife to commit adultery Jealous husband objects to wife's enjoyment of intercourse: thinks she has had previous experience Jealous 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 forest Trickster 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 wife The overbearing wife The nagging wife The disobedient wife The obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.) The quarrelsome 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
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Fratricide motivated by love-jealousy. (Cf. T257.)

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