μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • Icelandic*Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

1 finer motif beneath it
Woman gets rid of impotent husband and remarries
Filed beside it
The shrewish wifeThe overbearing wifeThe nagging wifeThe disobedient wifeThe obstinate wife or husband. (Cf. J2511.)The quarrelsome wife or husbandJealous 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 silent wifeWife cannot keep secretThe spendthrift wife
Travels with
The continent husband. (Cf. T271.)

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