90 motifs match “adulteress”  ·  back to the chapters

• Dog indicates pregnant woman, adulteress, etc. (Cf. B121.1, B134, B153.) B152.1
• Woman slandered as adulteress is thrown into lion pit. Lions do not harm her. B522.3
• Adulteress returns from dead as devastating dragon. E263
• "Do not trust the over-holy": counsel proved wise by experience. Wife so modest she will not travel with husband (adulteress); priest so pious he will not tread on worm (thief). J21.18
• Adulteress betrayed by little child's remark. J125.2
• Adulteress prepares for old age. Charges a pair of shoes to consort with men. When old she pays with shoes the men who will consort with her. J761.3
• Testimony of unsuccessful suitor discredited. Adulteress is surprised in intrigue by unsuccessful suitor. He threatens to tell her husband. She tells her husband that the scorned suitor has accused her falsely of indiscretion with many men. When the suitor tells the husband he does not believe him. J1151.4
• Adulteress hurled from high rock escapes injury: she may not be punished again. J1184.1
• Adulteress's absurdity rebuked. J1532
• Adulteress makes husband believe that the birth of her mulatto child has been due to suggestion. J2338
• "I am as good as you are." One woman says to another, "You are an adulteress and a thief, and I know that I am just as good as you are." J2666.1
• Adulteress escapes prison disguised as an old woman. K521.4.5
• Adulteress lures husband so as to have him killed. K778.5
• Adulteress frightens paramour with cries of "Rape!" Then she removes her husband's suspicion by feigning a fit. Later the paramour tricks her to his room and shows her naked, except for face, to her husband. K1213.1.1
• Adulteress tells lover "I can see the whole world." Hidden shepherd asks "Can you see my lost calves (ass)?" K1271.4
• Adulteress outwits husband. K1510
• Adulteress kills home-coming husband. K1510.1
• The husband locked out. An adulteress returns home late at night and her husband refuses to admit her. She threatens to throw herself into the well. The husband goes after her. She enters the house and bars him out. K1511
• Adulteress refuses to admit husband under pretence that he is a stranger. K1511.1
• Adulteress gets rid of husband while she entertains lover. K1514
• Adulteress locks up hidden husband and meets lovers. K1514.6
• Adulteress has lover unload wood on doorstep. This keeps husband out. K1514.9
• Adulteress sets husband to watch for intruder while she entertains the paramour. K1514.10
• Adulteress pretends to go to say her prayers. Keeps tryst with paramour. K1514.12
• Adulteress gives paramour tryst in house of ill-fame. Meets husband who leaves in shame. K1514.13
• Adulteress throws small coffer out of window. While the husband retrieves it the paramour changes hiding places. K1514.15
• Lover masks as pregnant woman: adulteress sent by husband to act as midwife, meets lover. K1514.16
• Adulteress together with lover while husband sleeps. K1514.17
• Husband frightened into sleeping alone. Adulteress has servants impersonate demons. K1514.17.2
• Adulteress makes excuse to go and attend to bodily needs: meets lover. K1514.18
• Adulteress extinguishes light to hide her paramour. K1516.3
• Adulteress covers husband's eyes during incantation. Meanwhile paramour escapes. K1516.4
• Adulteress persuades husband to milk cow with his eyes blindfolded: meets lover. (Cf. Chaucer's Merchant's Tale.) K1516.5
• Adulteress falls in mud at lover's door. She deceives her husband by saying that she must enter and clean her dress. K1524
• Friar's trousers on adulteress's bed: relic to cure sickness. The husband is duped into believing that the friar has come to visit the sick. K1526
• Adulteress tells her lover how she loves her husband. She thus deceives the spying husband under the bed. K1532.1
• Adulteress tells how she may save her husband's life. Discovering him under the bed, she tells lover that at temple she has learned that her husband is to die soon unless she prevents death by sleeping with a strange man. The husband is satisfied. K1532.2
• Adulteress transforms her husband into an animal to get rid of him. (The Tsar's Dog.) K1535
• Adulteress transforms man to stone up to the waist. K1535.1
• Adulteress makes believe that her suspicious husband is insane. He is taken away. K1548
• Adulteress outwits husband – miscellaneous motifs. K1549
• Husband outwits adulteress and paramour. K1550
• Adulteress detected: husband secretly drops dye on her dress. K1550.1.1
• Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. K1550.1.2
• Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. K1550.3
• Husband returns home secretly and spies on adulteress and lovers. K1551
• Adulteress binds husband's eyes and causes him to sing incantations concerning the adultery. K1556.1
• Trickster outwits adulteress and paramour. K1570
• Trickster as sham magician makes adulteress produce hidden food for her husband. K1571.1
• Lover blackmails adulteress. K1582
• Innocent confessor duped into being go-between for adulteress and lover. By following suggestions in her false accusations to confessor the lover reaches her side. K1584
• Adulteress uses the public baths as a meeting-place with her lover. A naive remark by her child exposes the deception to the husband. K1587
• Adulteress disguised as boy elopes with paramour. K1593
• The "loyal" adulteress. Complacent in all except kissing. Explains that her mouth is the only part of her body which has promised fidelity to her husband. K1595
• Veiled adulteress flees with paramour who has enlisted duped husband's aid. K1821.3.1
• Adulteress feigns unusual sensitiveness. K2051
• Adulteress pretends shame before male statue (mirror, male fish). K2051.1
• Adulteress pretends to faint when her husband strikes her with a rose. She has allowed her lover to abuse her. K2051.2
• Adulteress feigns great disdain of men; will look at none but husband (and lover). K2051.3
• Adulteress tricks husband into killing allegedly importunate lover. K2111.4
• Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.) K2112
• Adulteress has lover killed. K2231.1
• Husband kills returning adulteress. (Cf. Q241.) Q411.0.1
• Adulteress kicked to death by mule as punishment. (Cf. Q241.) Q416.1.1
• Adulteress ejected into street clad only in her shirt. (Cf. Q241, Q243, Q473.) Q432.2
• Adulteress confined in a cage. (Cf. Q241.) Q433.1.1
• Adulteress and paramour fettered. (Cf. Q241.) Q434.1
• Adulteress's pregnant belly pierced with pounder. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.14
• Adulteress walled up with corpse of paramour. Q455.2.1
• Adulteress confined in room containing the corpse of her paramour. She becomes ill and dies. Q455.2.1.1
• Adulteress caused to fall down stairs from which steps have been removed. (Cf. Q241.) Q469.1
• Corpse of adulteress drawn through streets. (Cf. Q241.) Q473.0.2
• Adulteress ridden through street on bull. (Cf. Q241.) Q473.1.1
• The Eaten Heart. Adulteress is caused unwittingly to eat her lover's heart. (Sometimes other parts of his body.) (Cf. Q241.) Q478.1
• Adulteress made to drink from paramour's skull. (Cf. Q241, Q491.5.) Q478.1.2
• Adulteress forced to eat out of lover's skull. Q478.1.2.1
• Adulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her room. Q478.1.3
• Adulteress forced to have lover's head before her at meals. Q478.1.4
• Adulteress compelled to eat with dog. (Cf. Q241, Q478.) Q478.2
• Adulteress compelled to eat a dog's leavings. (Cf. Q241, Q523.3.) Q478.3
• Adulteress forced to wear symbolic dress. Husband makes her dress in coarse cloth except for her undefiled parts which are covered with gold brocade. (Cf. Q241.) Q487
• Adulteress transformed to mare and stirruped. (Cf. Q241.) Q493.1
• Penance: adulteress masks as monk and lives chastely in monastery. (Cf. Q241.) Q537.1
• Adulteress and paramour plot against her stepson. They fear that he may betray them. S31.1
• Adulteress chooses loathly paramour. T232.2
• Adulteress poisons husband in order to be with swineherd. T232.3
• Adulteress on her death-bed reveals the illegitimacy of her children. Did not want her husband to be burdened with their bringing up. T238
• Series of husbands try in vain to control adulteress. T241
• Adulteress roughly treated by her lover. T481.1
• Adulteress sells self to devil for money. T481.3