Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot) — Mythoi

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Wife proves her faithfulness. Had substituted for husband's mistress. Proves legitimacy of her child by producing tokens and by child's missing toe (like her husband's four-toed foot).

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Celibacy and continence. · view the constellation · filed as T318

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Celibacy and continence.

Filed beside it

Ceremonial continence Woman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.) Saint's daughter dies when wooed Ravished girl's virginity restored by Virgin Mary Father kills daughter lest she become prostitute Continence in marriage The repression of lust. (Cf. D1356.)

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