40 motifs match “fidelity”  ·  back to the chapters

• Pleiades six repudiated wives. They have been cast out for apparent infidelity. A773.2
• Why some married people quarrel and accuse each other of infidelity. A1375.1
• Satyr reveals woman's infidelity. B24.1
• Bird betrays woman's infidelity. (Cf. B134.1.) B131.3
• Dog betrays woman's infidelity. (Cf. B1313.) B134.1
• Transformation to test fidelity. D659.8
• Olive branch insures fidelity of husband. Wife to beat him with it. (Cf. D954.) D1355.8
• Supernatural person (poet) reveals marital infidelity. F345.2
• Familiar spirit reveals infidelity of man's wife. F403.2.3.5
• Crown exposes infidelity of husbands. H422.1
• Tests of fidelity. H1556
• Fidelity of servant tested. H1556.0.1
• Test of fidelity (loyalty) of guard. (Faithful unto death.) H1556.0.2
• Test of fidelity by feigning death. H1556.1
• Test of fidelity through submitting hero to temptations. H1556.2
• Test of fidelity through offering suspected assassin opportunity to commit the murder. H1556.3
• Fidelity in love tested. H1556.4
• Lover's fidelity tested by going to bed with mistress and only kissing. H1556.4.1
• Lover's fidelity tested by making love to maid. H1556.4.2
• Wife tests her husband's fidelity by tempting him in the guise of another woman. H1556.4.2.1
• Lover's fidelity tested by substituting maid in mistress's bed at assignation. He must refuse her. H1556.4.3
• Old uncle tests nephew's fidelity by sleeping with his beloved. H1556.4.4
• Test of fidelity by feigning sleep in same bed as calumniated hero or alone in the forest with him. H1556.5
• Parrot unable to tell husband details as to wife's infidelity. Wife has parrot describe a storm very realistically. Husband observes contrast in the two tales. (Cf. J1152.) J1154.1
• Husband refuses to believe in wife's infidelity. J2342
• Husband praises wife's fidelity. Rascal tests it and finds it lacking. J2342.4
• Only husband remains ignorant about his wife's infidelity. J2342.5
• Husband beaten by paramour. Husband, dressed in wife's clothing, is beaten by forewarned paramour. The latter says that he is testing the wife's fidelity to her husband. K1514.4.1
• 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
• Girl disguised as man accused of infidelity. K2113.1
• Man falsely accused of infidelity. (Cf. K2121.) K2114
• Man leaves his sweetheart in charge of friend. He tries to force his attentions upon her and then claims it was a test of fidelity. K2297.1
• Husband learns of wife's fidelity through conversation overheard. N455.6
• Reward for marital fidelity. (Cf. Q87.) Q83
• Reward for wife's fidelity. Q83.1
• Goddess killed for infidelity with mortal. Q246.1
• Woman's naiveté proves her fidelity. Man is rebuked for having bad breath. He reproves his wife for never having told him. "I thought that men liked it as I did." He realizes that his wife has not known any other man. T221
• Object stolen (left) as token that infidelity has been discovered. T247
• Substituted sword. Husband leaves wooden sword in scabbard of wife's paramour upon discovering their infidelity. T247.1
• Oft-proved fidelity. Repeated attempts to seduce innocent woman. She escapes them all. T320.1