45 motifs match “faithless”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why the wild boar is hunted by man for food: once a faithless wife killed by her husband. A1422.3
• Ring springs asunder when faithlessness of lover is learned. D1318.9.1
• Dead sweetheart haunts faithless lover. E211
• Dead lover haunts faithless sweetheart. E214
• Ghost of person abandoned by faithless lover. (Cf. E211ff.) E334.3
• King: Show me a ruby eight for a pice, nectar eight for a pice, and a faithless creature worth one-eighth of a pice. Minister: The lamp sells at eight for a pice and gives more light than any ruby; the water is the real nectar; and the dog is worthless and faithless lover because he follows anyone who feeds him. H587.1
• What is most faithless thing in world? H659.26
• Husband takes back faithless wife on her oath to be faithful. J2301.1
• Faithless wife ties sleeping husband's hair to bed, allowing lover to kill him. K713.1.7
• Amorous intrigue exposed and faithless husband humiliated. K1271.3
• The faithless wife asks her gullible husband how he would act if he were blind. The husband closes his eyes; meanwhile the lover escapes. K1516.6
• Faithless wife kills magic parrot which has betrayed her. K1591.0.1
• Disguised husband wins his faithless wife's love. K1813.1
• Disguised husband spies on his faithless wife. K1813.2
• Woman in disguise wooed by her faithless husband. K1814
• Woman disguised as pilgrim engages lover in conversation and learns of his faithlessness. (Cf. K1817.2.) K1837.2
• Faithless wife and paramour throw hero overboard. K2213.2
• Faithless wife plots with paramour against husband's life. (Cf. K2213.5.) K2213.3
• Faithless wife has husband and children killed so that she can be with paramour. K2213.3.1
• Faithless wife poisons husband to be with paramour. Paramour fearing a like fate refuses to go to her. K2213.3.2
• Faithless wife deceives husband while she searches for lover. K2213.3.3
• The faithless resuscitated wife. Husband at great sacrifice has brought his wife back to life. She immediately deserts him and plots with a paramour against his life. (Cf. K2213.2.) K2213.5
• Faithless wife transforms husband. K2213.6
• Faithless wife betrays husband to her father. K2213.7
• Faithless queen aids lover to dispossess king. K2213.8
• Faithless wife incites sons to make war upon father. K2213.9
• Faithless wife tricks husband into setting lover free. K2213.10
• Faithless foster brother. P273.2
• Faithless servant. P365
• Faithless men-servants corrupt the maids in the household. P365.1
• Faithless wife (mistress) seized by husband's (lover's) poet, who leaps to death with her in his arms. Q411.0.1.3
• Murder of faithless wife with poisoned salad. (Cf. Q241.) Q418.1
• Mistress's nose cut off as punishment for faithlessness. Q451.5.1.1
• Impalement as punishment for faithlessness. Enemy chief has the faithless widow of his victim impaled. Q461.1
• Faithlessness in marriage. T230
• Faithless wife causes her husband to go insane. T230.2
• The faithless widow. T231
• Faithless widow betrothed anew at husband's funeral. T231.1
• Faithless widow fans husband's grave. She does not want to remarry until the body is cold (or the earth on the grave is dry). T231.2
• Faithless widow ready to marry messenger who brings news of husband's death. The husband, however, has only feigned death to test her. (Cf. T235.) T231.3
• Faithless widow offers city to killer of her husband if he will marry her. T231.3.1
• Faithless widow's heartlessness repels the new suitor. She obeys him when he tells her to knock out the teeth of her dead husband. Fearing like treatment, he leaves. T231.4
• Faithless widow marries slayer of husband. T231.5
• Faithless wife pays her paramour for enjoying herself with him. T232.5
• Faithlessness in marriage – miscellaneous. T249