114 motifs match “husband's” — showing the first 100; narrow the words for the rest  ·  back to the chapters

• Animals warn wife of husband's danger. B521.4
• Man commends wife to devil. Devil takes the charge seriously and guards woman's chastity during husband's absence. C12.4
• Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
• Tabu: woman not to touch husband's drum (magic object). C181.1
• Transformation to husband's (lover's) form to seduce woman. D658.2
• Transformation: wife to mistress. Transformed wife substitutes for husband's mistress. D659.7
• Magic sword protects woman from fairy lover in husband's absence. (Cf. D1081, F301.) D1386.1
• Husband's love magically turns to hatred. D1908.1
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory. D2006.1
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by detaining lovers through magic. Heroine takes up residence near home of her forgetful husband. She is apparently going to permit a lover to sleep with her when she detains him by having him try to place some magic birds on their roost. They continue to fall down throughout the night. (Or the lover is left magically sticking to a calf's tail or other object.) The thwarted lover tells of his experience, and in this way the attention of the husband is gained. D2006.1.1
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by serving as milkmaid and talking to calf. D2006.1.2
• Forgotten fiancée reawakens husband's memory by having magic doves converse. D2006.1.3
• Forgotten fiancée buys place in husband's bed and reawakens his memory. D2006.1.4
• Forgotten wife gives food to beggar: husband's memory reawakened. D2006.1.10
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife. E221.2
• Dead wife returns to reprove husband's second wife for abusing her step-children. E221.2.1
• Dead husband's friendly return. E321
• Saved soul of woman assists her husband's soul in battle against demons. (Cf. E754.) E756.5
• Wife goes to land of dead to procure dead husband's heart. F81.1.1
• Queen takes husband's place in battle. F565.1.3
• Woman dies on hearing of her husband's death. F1041.1.2.2
• Woman swoons and is near death at hearing of husband's or lover's death. F1041.1.2.2.1
• Lost husband's bones found among cannibals. G691.4
• Recognition by large breasts that woman in bed is not husband's wife. H79.6
• Complacent wife agrees with all of husband's absurd statements. H474
• Husband has friend woo his wife: seduction narrowly averted by frightened husband's intervention. H492.2.2
• Quest assigned by wife through appeal to husband's love for her. He is sent for liver of dangerous animal. H1212.2
• Wife tests her husband's fidelity by tempting him in the guise of another woman. H1556.4.2.1
• Husband's (wife's) willingness to die for mate disappears when Death seems to arrive. H1556.4.5
• Wife reforms wayward husband. Makes gift to husband's mistress so that she may receive him fittingly. Husband is shamed into reforming. J1112.1
• Wife dismisses maid who is husband's mistress and tells him she has fled. Husband understands and reforms. J1112.2
• As you surely will. After her husband's death a woman cannot find a hammer and anvil. She goes to a dying neighbor and says, "If you die, as you surely will, and go to Heaven, as you surely will not, ask my husband where he left the hammer and anvil." The dying man's wife replies, "If you go to Heaven, as you surely will, if you die as you surely will not, do not run around and get into trouble, but sit down by the Eternal Father and observe and keep still." J1481
• Woman repulses ugly husband's advances. He placates her by telling her that he wants a handsome child. J1541.3
• Pubic hair of ardent husband's wife thought to be calf's tail by peasant in tree. J1772.4.1
• Wife carried up tree to sky in bag in husband's teeth. She asks question and he drops her when he answers. J2133.5.1
• Woman gives birth to child fourteen months after husband's departure. The latter is made to believe it is legitimate. J2342.2.1
• Obedient husband hangs his wife. Wife had wished only to test her husband's love for her. J2523.1
• Death feigned to escape from husband's death plot. K522.3
• Faithless wife ties sleeping husband's hair to bed, allowing lover to kill him. K713.1.7
• Abduction by fraudulently giving signal of husband's return. (Cf. K1354.3.2.) K755.1
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife: the hair from his beard. She tells the wife to increase her husband's love by cutting a hair from his beard. Also tells the husband that his wife will try to cut his throat. He kills his wife. K1085
• Woman makes trouble between man and wife (to lick husband's body). K1085.1
• 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
• Husband's twin brother mistaken by woman for her husband. K1311.1
• Trickster asks husband for one thing and the wife for another. The husband's order: "Let him have what he wants." K1354.2.1
• Seduction of wife by alleging that husband's vision compels him to leave home. K1375.1
• The cut-off nose. (Lai of the Tresses.) A woman leaves her husband's bed and has another woman take her place. The husband addresses her, gets no answer and cuts off her nose (hair). In the morning the wife still has her nose (hair). The husband is made to believe that it has grown back by a miracle (or that he was dreaming). K1512
• The husband's good eye covered. The wife holds a cloth in front of his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour. K1516
• The husband's good eye treated. The wife pretends to treat his one good eye, so that he cannot see the paramour. K1516.1
• Adulteress covers husband's eyes during incantation. Meanwhile paramour escapes. K1516.4
• Wife washes husband's hair hiding his eyes while lover escapes unseen. K1516.7
• 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
• Woman has paramour steal her husband's clothes. Paramour gains entrance disguised as the husband. The husband without his clothes is driven away from his home. K1549.1
• Adulteress binds husband's eyes and causes him to sing incantations concerning the adultery. K1556.1
• The husband prepares to castrate the crucifix. The artist's wife's paramour poses as a crucifix when caught. When he sees the husband's preparations, he flees naked. K1558
• Lover's gift regained: borrowing from the husband and returning to the wife. The lover borrows money from the husband with which to corrupt the wife, later telling the husband that the money was returned to the wife during the husband's absence. K1581.3
• Lover demands return of cloth on threat to await the husband's return. K1581.5.2
• 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
• Paramour feigns loss of genitals in order to obtain the husband's confidence. K1586
• Seventy tales of a parrot prevent a wife's adultery. The parrot keeps her interested until her husband's return. K1591
• Woman frightens robber away by telling him parrot's cry is husband's voice. K1796
• Queen flees husband's persecution disguised as knight. K1812.8.1
• Veiled adulteress flees with paramour who has enlisted duped husband's aid. K1821.3.1
• Bride has maid sleep in husband's bed to conceal pregnancy. K1843.1
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. Brings about reconciliation. K1843.2
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed: husband sends message of death. K1843.2.1
• Wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed. The husband, unaware of the substitution, asks his friends to share his good fortune. K1843.2.3
• Wife substitutes an old woman for herself in her husband's bed. K1843.3
• Fairy visits queen in her husband's shape and begets son with her. K1844.4
• The false bride (substituted bride). An impostor takes the wife's place without the husband's knowledge and banishes (kills, transforms) the wife. K1911
• Husband's letter ordering the calumniated wife to be treated well is altered into an order of execution. K2117.1
• Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape. K2213.1
• Faithless wife plots with paramour against husband's life. (Cf. K2213.5.) K2213.3
• Paramour demands that wife bring him her husband's head. K2213.3.2.1
• Betrayal of husband's secret by his wife. K2213.4
• Treacherous daughter-in-law plots against husband's mother. K2214.2.1
• Wife brings bad luck to the husband's family. N134.1.2
• Husband's magic gift returns to him. Wife gives husband's magic gift (fruit) to lover, who presents it to a dancing girl, who sells it back to the husband. N212.1
• Detection by accidental remark. Wife misunderstands husband's remark and confesses. N275.3
• Wife throwing husband's corpse into river (according to custom) is caught by corpse's arm and drowned. N339.14
• Queen commits adultery with husband's foster son. P29.2
• Daughter marries her husband's slayer in order to save her old father from war. P234.1
• Wife scolds husband's hospitality, as he really has nothing to give. P336.2
• Faithless wife (mistress) seized by husband's (lover's) poet, who leaps to death with her in his arms. Q411.0.1.3
• Woman cast on husband's funeral pyre as punishment. Q414.6
• Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing. (Cf. S263.5.) S264.1.2
• Woman falls in love as result of husband's praise of her suitor. T13
• Lover goes to see his beloved in her husband's (or her father's) house, defiant of the danger. T35.5
• Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.) T81.7
• Princess falls in love with knight. Marries him after her husband's death. T91.6.4.1.1
• Royal bride conducted by embassy to husband's kingdom. (Cf. T51.) T133.2
• Journey to husband's home accompanied by attendants. T137.6
• Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponed. T211.1
• Woman drowns herself as sacrifice to water-gods to save husband's boat from capsizing. T211.1.1
• Wife offers to sacrifice her right arm for husband's safe return. T211.1.3
• Wife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.) T211.2
• Wife throws herself on husband's funeral pyre. T211.2.1
• Husband's corpse kept after death. T211.4.2
• Excessive grief at husband's or wife's death. T211.9
• Woman swims nightly to husband's prison and arranges his escape. Spurns the attentions of treacherous suitor. (Cf. R152.) T215.6