83 motifs match “adultery”  ·  back to the chapters

• Adultery among the gods. A164.2
• Sun-god commits adultery. A220.0.1
• Origin of adultery. It occurs in the primeval human family. A1556.3
• Animal reveals mistress's adultery: punished by master. (Cf. A2411.2.1.5, A2422.1.1.) A2237.1
• Tabu: adultery. C115
• Fairy banished for adultery. (Cf. F254.5, Q241.) F252.4.1
• Fairies commit adultery. (Cf. F252.4.1.) F254.5
• Man dies on learning of wife's adultery. F1041.1.3.5
• Riddling answers betray theft or adultery H582
• Riddling answers betray adultery. H582.2
• Child unwittingly betrays his mother's adultery. Tells father not to step across chalk line drawn around secretary; if he does secretary may do to him what he did to Mother the other day. J125.2.1
• Senator overlooks wife's adultery rather than impair his reputation. J221.1.1
• Three sins of the hermit. Choice of three sins given him: adultery, murder (theft), drunkenness. He chooses drunkenness; the others follow. (Cf. J21.25.) J485
• Cocks who crow about mistress's adultery killed. Discreet cock saves his life. J551.1
• Bird warns mistress against committing adultery: gets neck wrung. J551.1.1
• Man disregards priest's warning that he will seduce his wife. Adultery committed. J652.3
• Adultery detected by spit marks on the wall. Too high to have been made by husband. J1142.3
• Husband relates his wife's adultery in pretended dream. She dies from fright. J1147.1
• Detection by disrobing in a dance. A man masking as a maiden has committed adultery with the queen. A clever girl by challenging him to disrobe in a dance exposes the imposture. J1149.3
• She knows best: woman denies accusation of adultery. Husband dismisses the truthful accusers saying that she knows her shortcomings better than anyone else, and she denies it. J2342.3
• Fool discloses woman's adultery; lover kills him. J2365
• Deceptive bargain: first to say "Good morning." The first to give the greeting shall have the disputed property. The trickster is early on the scene and witnesses the other's adultery. He may keep the property without saying good morning. K176
• The bag of lies: threat to tell of queen's adultery. The boy, who is to tell the bag of lies, is stopped and his wishes granted. K1271.1.1
• Educated chickens tell of woman's adultery. A trickster undertakes to teach a woman's chickens to talk. When he reports that they are saying that she has slept with the priest, she pays him off. K1271.1.3
• Wife surprises husband in adultery and shames him into giving her all she desires. K1271.3.1
• Deception connected with adultery. K1500
• The enchanted pear tree. The wife makes the husband, who has seen the adultery from the tree, believe that the tree is magic or that he has seen double. K1518
• Husband transformed to goat must witness wife's adultery. The devil has let him see his wife's unfaithfulness in this way. K1531
• Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. (Usually shares his bedmate with others, not knowing that she is his wife.) K1544
• Wife surprised in adultery feigns death. Comes "back to life" on hearing husband say he has seen nothing. (Cf. K1538.) K1549.2
• Husband discovers wife's adultery. K1550.1
• Adulteress binds husband's eyes and causes him to sing incantations concerning the adultery. K1556.1
• Husband discovers wife's adultery by riddling conversation. In this indirect manner the wife confesses and promises reform. K1557
• Husband persuades wife to light wicks and carry knife in hand before committing adultery: lovers frightened away. K1569.6
• Alleged speaking privates. Husband pretends that his wife's privates tell him of her adultery. K1569.7
• Trickster discovers adultery: food goes to husband instead of paramour. K1571
• Trickster discovers adultery: gets food prepared for paramour. K1571.0.1
• Trickster makes woman believe that her husband is coming to punish her adultery. She confesses. K1572
• Trickster sends his master running after the paramour. Though the master does not know of the adultery, the lover is thoroughly frightened. K1573
• Other deceits connected with adultery. K1580
• Wife takes servant's place and discovers husband's adultery. The husband says that he is going into a state of meditation with a cloth over his face. He substitutes a servant and goes to his mistress. The wife finds the deceit and takes the servant's place. On his return the husband tells the supposed servant of his adultery. K1585
• Woman excites peasant (secretary), who draws line on floor and dares her to cross it. When she does, adultery is committed. K1588
• Seventy tales of a parrot prevent a wife's adultery. The parrot keeps her interested until her husband's return. K1591
• Faithful wife in disguise saves husband from punishment for adultery. K1596
• Husband as God behind the tree forces his wife to confess adultery. K1971.5
• "Chaste" woman surprised in adultery. K2063
• Sentence applied to king's own son. Those caught in adultery are to have eyes put out. When king's son is found guilty he insists on the punishment. He finally compromises by having one of his own and one of his son's eyes put out. M13
• Father causes death of innocent son, believing him guilty of adultery with father's wife. N344.2
• Unwitting adultery with blood-brother's wife. N766
• King learning of queen's adultery abdicates. P16.1.2
• Queen commits adultery with husband's foster son. P29.2
• Foster son commits adultery with foster father's wife. P275.1
• Adultery punished. (Cf. Q411.0.1, Q413.2, Q414.0.2, Q416.1.1, Q418.1, Q421.0.2, Q421.0.6, Q424.2, Q428.1, Q431.8, Q432.2, Q434.1, Q451.1.5, Q451.2.4, Q451.4.8, Q451.5.1, Q451.6.1, Q451.14, Q455.2, Q456.0.1, Q457.3, Q458.0.1, Q461.3, Q466.1, Q469.1, Q473.0.2, Q473.1.1, Q473.2.1, Q478.1, Q478.2, Q478.3, Q484, Q493.1, Q499.2.1, Q537.1, Q552.3.0.3, Q555.2, Q587.) Q241
• Desire to commit adultery punished. Q241.1
• Death for repeated adultery. Q411.0.1.4
• Hanging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q413.2
• Burning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q414.0.2
• Beheading as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q421.0.2
• Strangling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q424.2
• Drowning as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q428.1
• Banishment as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q431.8
• Imprisonment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q433.1
• Arms cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.1.5
• Legs cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.2.4
• Tongue cut off as punishment for alleged adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.4.8
• Nose cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.5.1
• Ears cut off as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q451.6.1
• Walling up as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q455.2
• Burial alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q456.0.1
• Flaying alive as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q457.3
• Flogging as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q458.0.1
• Flogging as punishment for desire to commit adultery. (Cf. Q241.1.) Q458.0.6
• Impaling as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q461.3
• Husband fondles second wife in presence of first as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q484
• Humiliating death as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q499.2.1
• Failure of crops and milk as punishment for adultery. (Cf. Q241.) Q552.3.0.3
• Husband's unjust jealousy forces wife to commit adultery. T257.7
• Wife repays husband's supposed adultery by doing likewise. T257.7.1
• Husband takes wife's place and receives punishment for her adultery. She is ungrateful. T261.1
• Woman commits adultery to obtain aid for husband in battle. T455.2.1
• Adultery. T481
• Queen commits adultery with low-born man. T481.2.1
• Child in mother's womb reveals adultery. T575.1.1.2