The audacious water and the continent husband. A woman with a continent husband (lover) splashes water on her thighs as she crosses a stream and then reproves it for being bolder than her husband. She thus calls attention to her situation

Motif

The audacious water and the continent husband. A woman with a continent husband (lover) splashes water on her thighs as she crosses a stream and then reproves it for being bolder than her husband. She thus calls attention to her situation.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Celibacy and continence. · view the constellation · filed as T315.2.1

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Irish myth*Cross.
general *Schoepperle 413ff.
general *Köhler-Bolte II 346f.

Within the index

Filed under The continent husband. (Cf. T271.)

Filed beside it

Wife reproves continent husband by showing conduct of cock and hens

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