Wife cannot keep secret — Mythoi

Motif

Wife cannot keep secret.

Sex. · Married life. · Characteristics of wives and husbands. · view the constellation · filed as T274

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Characteristics of wives and husbands.

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 neglected wife The silent wife The spendthrift wife

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