24 motifs match “shrew”  ·  back to the chapters

• Shrew blows nose into snout. Sent after fire, he finds but a little which he tries to revive by hard blowing. A2211.5
• Shrew refuses to help make road: dies on road. (Cf. A2468.1.) A2233.1.3
• Why shrew dies on road. (Cf. A2233.1.3.) A2468.1
• Tabu: killing shrew-mouse, sacred to the gods. C92.1.3
• Order to put a small vessel of milk into huge container. Shrewd group each by himself pours water thinking this will not be detected if the others pour milk. K231.6.1.1
• Usurer blackmailed. Shrewd suitor persuades usurer to charge him 100 per cent interest, then has him arrested. Thus gets daughter for wife. K443.11
• Wager on the most obedient wife. The husband tames his shrewish wife so that he wins the wager. N12
• Punishment: marrying shrewish wife. Q599.1
• The shrewish wife. T251
• Avoiding the shrewish wife. T251.1
• Belfagor. The devil frightened by the shrewish wife. A man persuades his shrewish wife to let herself be lowered into a well. When he comes to pull her out he raises a genie (devil) who is glad to escape from the woman. Later he frightens the devil by telling him that his wife has escaped. T251.1.1
• Devil flees shrewish wife and enters body of a duke. Exorcised by telling him that they are sending for his wife. T251.1.1.1
• Late husband chooses to remain in Purgatory rather than to return to his shrewish wife. T251.1.2
• Husband chooses to go to hell rather than join shrewish wife in heaven. T251.1.2.1
• Man had rather remain transformed to mule than to live with his shrewish wife. T251.1.3
• Man forces devil to take back the shrewish wife. T251.1.4
• Taming the shrew. By outdoing his wife in shrewishness the husband renders her obedient. T251.2
• Shrew tamed by setting another shrew against her. T251.2.1
• Shrewish wife driven from home but when in danger, runs to husband and receives protection. She is a good wife thereafter. T251.2.5
• Strength in words, in herbs, and in stones. When first two do not cure shrewish wife, the last does. (Cf. J1563.6, J1581.2, J2412.5.) T251.5
• Husband will not search for shrewish wife who has run away from him. T251.7
• Shrewish wife gives husband beating every morning. T251.8
• Husband consoled by seeing woman even more shrewish than his wife. (Cf. J882.) T251.9
• Fakir thankful for shrewish wife: she is a thorn in his flesh and warns him from neglecting the ways of righteousness. T251.11