μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The neglected wife.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T271

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • 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 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 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 silent wife Wife cannot keep secret The spendthrift wife
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
The continent husband. (Cf. T271.)

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