The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.) — Mythoi

Motif

The ungrateful wife. (Cf. W154.)

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T261

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 16
Literary Crystallization The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise , Hell 11

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

1 finer motif beneath it

Husband takes wife's place and receives punishment for her adultery. She is ungrateful

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 Jealous wife or husband The curious wife 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.)

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