35 motifs match “faithfulness”  ·  back to the chapters

• Disenchantment by faithfulness of others. D750
• Disenchantment of long absent spouse by faithfulness of partner. D755
• Disenchantment by faithfulness of others – miscellaneous. D759
• Dream warns emperor of wife's unfaithfulness. D1813.1.1
• Recognition of wife's ring in friend's possession informs husband of her unfaithfulness. H94.0.1
• Suitor test: faithfulness. H338
• Chastity index. Objects indicate faithfulness or unfaithfulness of separated lovers (husband or wife). H430
• Rose as chastity index. Fading rose indicates unfaithfulness. (Cf. D975.2.) H432.1
• Three roses fall as sign of unfaithfulness. H432.1.1
• Ring as chastity index. Indicates faithfulness by color. (Cf. D1076.) H433.1
• Feigned death to test wife's faithfulness. H466
• Feigned absence to test wife's faithfulness. H466.1
• Other tests of wife's love or faithfulness. H467
• Wife's faithfulness tested by proposal in another's name. H467.2
• Test of faithfulness of husband and wife. H492
• Husband castrates himself to test wife's faithfulness. H492.3
• Traveler says he must look after his net to see if it has taken fish. (He has left his lady seven years before with a pledge of faithfulness. Net has taken fish – lady has had lovers.) H586.2.2
• King overlooks wife's unfaithfulness rather than to cause troubles of state. J221.1
• Man rebukes servants for telling him of his wife's unfaithfulness. J221.1.2
• Man with unfaithful wife comforted when he sees the queen's unfaithfulness. J882.1
• Cut-off finger proves wife's chastity. A chaste wife substitutes a maidservant for seducer. A finger and ring are cut off as proof of wife's unfaithfulness (chastity wager with husband). Refuted by husband, who knows they are not his wife's. K1512.1
• The animal in the chest. The husband has locked the surprised paramour in a chest while he fetches his family as witness of his wife's unfaithfulness. She frees the lover, substitutes an animal, and discountenances the husband. (Cf. K1542, K1555, K1566, K1574.) K1515
• Husband transformed to goat must witness wife's adultery. The devil has let him see his wife's unfaithfulness in this way. K1531
• False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treachery. K2112.1
• Fingers as false token of wife's unfaithfulness. She has substituted a maid and the gallant has cut off the maid's finger. K2112.1.1
• Tongue cut (bitten) off as punishment for unfaithfulness to wife. Q451.4.8.1
• Faithfulness in marriage. T210
• Faithfulness to marriage in death. T211
• Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune. T215
• Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress. T222
• Husband transforms himself to test his wife's faithfulness. (Cf. T231.3.) T235
• 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). T318
• Birth of twins an indication of unfaithfulness in wife. (Cf. T586.3.) T587.1
• Faithfulness to Virgin Mary, even if not to Christ, rewarded. V253
• "Ave" on the tongue. Because of faithfulness in saying "Aves" the words are found imprinted on the dead man's tongue. (Cf. V86.2.) V254.3