King takes subject's wife while her husband is sent away — Mythoi

Motif

King takes subject's wife while her husband is sent away.

Sex. · Illicit sexual relations. · Illicit sexual relations – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T481.5

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 10

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
Danish Grundtvig No. 145.

Within the index

Filed under Adultery.

Filed beside it

Adulteress roughly treated by her lover Queen's illicit passion for diseased man Adulteress sells self to devil for money Wife seduces husband's servant (pupil) Queen begets son with duke while the king is in war Woman advises husband to kill guest else, she will make him chase husband and marry her instead

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