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

• Man attempts to kill faithful serpent at wife's instigation. Loses everything. B335.1
• Husband ties a cock near wife's feet: snake-parasite in her stomach comes out to catch the cock and is killed by husband. B784.2.1.2
• Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
• Dream warns emperor of wife's unfaithfulness. D1813.1.1
• Whale husband makes wife's eyes impervious to sea water. D1841.4.5
• Husband resuscitated after wife's nose is cut off and thrown over grave. E165.2
• Dead husband returns to reprove wife's second husband (lover). E221.3
• Dead husband returns to protest wife's spending his money. E221.4
• Dead wife's friendly return. (Cf. E221.2.) E322
• Vigil of husband at wife's grave calls her forth. E385
• Dead man visiting wife deceived by wife's absurd actions – "no more absurd than ghost visiting wife". (Cf. E321.2, E474.) E432.2
• Journey to sky-world by riding unseen in supernatural wife's chariot. F66.1.1
• Husband shoots arrows, barely missing wife's ears. F661.9.1
• Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring. F661.10
• Husband concealed in wife's ear. F1034.1
• Death from hearing of wife's death. F1041.1.2.2.3
• Man dies on learning of wife's adultery. F1041.1.3.5
• Moon made to eat wife's corpse by mother-in-law. G27
• Husband becomes cannibal from eating wife's breast. She cuts off her breasts and cooks them to feed her family. The husband thus acquires a longing for human flesh. G36.1
• Devil visible to one who walks in minister's (or minister's wife's) holy shoes (galoshes). G303.6.2.4
• Man marries a she-devil He catches her as succubus and marries. Some years later his wife's brothers invite them to a feast (wedding) and he gets gifts or wife's dowry. G303.12.6.1
• Cannibal is killed by his wife's relatives. G551.5
• Recognition of wife's ring in friend's possession informs husband of her unfaithfulness. H94.0.1
• Husband attracted by wife's power of healing: recognition follows. H151.8
• Bride test: wearing deceased wife's clothes. H363.1
• Bride test: wearing deceased wife's ring. H363.2
• Painting on wife's stomach as chastity index. H439.1.1
• Test of wife's patience. Griselda. Children stolen and attendance at wedding to another demanded. H461
• Test of wife's endurance. Haughty princess married to beggar and must endure poverty and menial work. H465
• Feigned death to test wife's faithfulness. H466
• Feigned absence to test wife's faithfulness. H466.1
• Other tests of wife's love or faithfulness. H467
• Feigned illness to test wife's love. Husband feigns loss of genitalia. H467.1
• Wife's faithfulness tested by proposal in another's name. H467.2
• Test of wife's ability to keep secret. H472
• Test of wife's ability to keep secret: the buried sheep's head. Husband tells her that he is burying head of murdered man. She is to keep secret. She tells. When head is dug up it is sheep's head. H472.1
• Test of wife's obedience. H473
• Test of wife's obedience: finger in hole. Disobedient wife puts her finger into the hole where her husband has fixed sharp nails. H473.1
• Test of wife's obedience: the one command. Upon his wife's insistence that he test her by giving one command the husband tells her not to go into the oven while he is away. She does so and oven falls on her. H473.2
• Test of wife's obedience: not to eat leeks. Although she does not like them, she immediately begins to want them. H473.3
• Test of wife's obedience: decorating house. H473.5
• Husband castrates himself to test wife's faithfulness. H492.3
• "Love like wind in hot sun." Husband offended but later learns wife's meaning. H592.1.1
• Tasks imposed because of wife's foolish boast. H916.1
• Task: liberating wife's sister, elephant's captive, who lives in a box in his ear. H1151.18
• Hero visits all islands to see if he can find woman to rival wife's beauty. H1301.1.3
• Husband's (wife's) willingness to die for mate disappears when Death seems to arrive. H1556.4.5
• Test of goddess' favor: man throws away his wife's jewel-box to see if she can regain it with the aid of goddess. H1577.1
• Test of goddess's favor: husband drowns his son to see if his wife's tutelary goddess can bring him back to life. H1577.2
• "Do not walk half a mile with a man without asking his name": counsel proved wise by experience. Man runs race unwittingly with his wife's paramour and loses his wife on the wager. (Cf. J21.8.) J21.11
• Caesar's scorn of his wife's advice leads to disaster. J155.3
• King overlooks wife's unfaithfulness rather than to cause troubles of state. J221.1
• Senator overlooks wife's adultery rather than impair his reputation. J221.1.1
• Man rebukes servants for telling him of his wife's unfaithfulness. J221.1.2
• Take money instead of revenge. Fool advises uncle, in letter which he did not send, to take money from wife's paramour instead of revenge. J229.11
• Husband relates his wife's adultery in pretended dream. She dies from fright. J1147.1
• 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
• Four men's mistress. A husband disguises as a priest to hear his wife's confession. She says that she has been mistress of a servant, a knight, a fool, and a priest; i.e., her husband when he was her servant, and later her knight. He had then been a fool for demanding her confession, and was a priest because he had heard it. J1545.2
• The exiled wife's dearest possession. A wife driven from home is allowed by her husband to take her one dearest possession. She takes her sleeping husband and effects reconciliation. J1545.4
• Trickster's interrupted feast revenged. He is asked a question by his master each time he tries to eat a date, so that he always has to spit out the date. He revenges himself that night when the master tries to carry on an intrigue with his wife's maid. He comes with his answers at embarrassing moments. J1564.1
• Stupid husband mistakes tiger-cubs for jungle cats despite wife's judgment. J1758.6
• Improving the wife's face by cutting off her nose. J2119.1.1
• Gullible husband removes from wife's garment dust gathered while she lies with another man. J2301.3
• Gullible husb and made to believe he has cut off his wife's nose. She, in another house, has had her nose cut off by mistake. She makes him believe he has done it by making him angry enough to throw a razor at her. When he throws the razor she claims it has cut off her nose. J2315.2
• 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
• A man undertakes to do his wife's work. All goes wrong. J2431
• Fool learns to repeat commonplace expressions: by chance thus scares off wife's suitors. J2461.2.2
• Foolish husband puts out wife's eyes at night because he heard that a beautiful wife is an enemy. J2462.3
• Obedient husband walks slowly. Arrives home after dawn when wife's lover has gone. J2523.2
• Thief steals belongings of his wife's paramour while the latter is calling on her. K341.14
• Covetous husband desiring wife's jewels tells her he has vowed to offer them to deity. K361.6
• Theft by wife's paramour. Wife tells him secret of buried money. K365.3
• Man in danger of life takes his wife's place in the bed with her night-cap on. K521.4.1.4
• Jealous husband tricks blind poet into slaying wife's lover with infallible spear. K863.1
• Wives killed when large price for his mother's (wife's) corpse is reported by trickster. K941.1.1
• Man murdered at his wife's side. (Cf. K873.1.) K959.2.3
• 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 wife's equivocal oath. A husband insists that his wife take oath that she has been intimate with no one but himself. The paramour masks as ass-driver. She hires an ass from him, falls down, and lets him pick her up. She then swears that no one has touched her except her husband and the ass-driver. K1513
• 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 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
• Gullible husband behind the tree. (Tristan and Isolt.) Husband goes to wife's love tryst and hides behind a tree. The wife, having learned of his presence, tells lover that he should not allow their innocent relations to lead to gossip. Husband is appeased. K1533
• Husband frightened by wife's paramour in hog pen. The husband sees the paramour who has hidden in the pen and says, "Who are you?" "I am a miserable hog." The husband thinks that his hogs are possessed. (Cf. K1515, K1555, K1566, K1574.) K1542
• The marked coat in the wife's room. A procuress obtains a woman for her client by leaving a marked coat in her room. The husband drives the wife away and she joins her lover. The procuress then goes to the husband and alleges that she lost a coat with certain marks. The husband is deceived and takes the wife back. K1543
• Husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery. (Usually shares his bedmate with others, not knowing that she is his wife.) K1544
• Husband rescues wife's paramour. Not knowing lover's identity, husband takes him to his wife and entrusts him to her care. He then leaves on a trip. K1544.1
• Wife's attendants on trip chase wrong man as suspected lover and miss real lover. K1549.6
• Husband discovers wife's adultery. K1550.1
• Husband discovers wife's adultery by riddling conversation. In this indirect manner the wife confesses and promises reform. K1557
• Husband discovers paramour's love letter in his wife's purse after having made her drunk. K1557.1
• 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
• The husband meets the paramour in the wife's place. Beats him (or cuts off privates). K1561
• Husband hides in wife's room and kills paramour. K1561.1
• Husband proves intrigue by secretly blacking paramour's mouth. When he returns, his wife's face is black. K1564
• Blades (broken glass) to wound and detect wife's lover. (Often on window.) K1565
• Cuckolded man shuts wife's paramour in chest and lies on the chest with latter's wife. K1566
• Husband in disguise begs food of his wife's suitors. K1568
• Husband catches paramour by using wife's pre-arranged signal. K1569.5