35 motifs match “unfaithful”  ·  back to the chapters

• Shooting stars are unfaithful wives. A788.5
• Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-country. A1422.0.1
• Unfaithful husband loses magic wife. C31.12
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Choice: staying at home with loving wife or going to tavern and having unfaithful wife. Man chooses latter. J229.1
• Man with unfaithful wife comforted. J882
• Man with unfaithful wife comforted when he sees the queen's unfaithfulness. J882.1
• Man with unfaithful wife comforted when he sees jealous husband who carefully guards wife cuckolded. J882.2
• Husband refuses to believe that his wife is unfaithful, even when she is caught in the act. J2342.1
• 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
• Unfaithful wife communicates with lover by pouring milk into stream. K1549.5
• 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
• Friend unfaithful but brother faithful. Brought to test by actions at apparent death of hero. P251.1
• Lover refuses to take back unfaithful paramour. Q241.2
• Tongue cut (bitten) off as punishment for unfaithfulness to wife. Q451.4.8.1
• Unfaithful husband and his mistress persecute his wife. S413
• Wife swallows hot coal and dies because her husband is unfaithful. T81.8
• Would-be unfaithful wife. T92.1.2
• Wife refuses to become unfaithful although she knows her husband to be so. T217
• Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress. T222
• Wife and husband believe each unfaithful at the slightest provocation. T230.1
• Old man married to young, unfaithful wife. T237
• Man unfaithful even on wedding night. T245
• Husband and wife (king and queen) each unfaithful to other. T249.2
• King sees how male stork kills his unfaithful wife. Follows its example. T252.2.1
• Birth of twins an indication of unfaithfulness in wife. (Cf. T586.3.) T587.1