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Motifs — first 20 of 45
- Why the wild boar is hunted by man for food: once a faithless wife killed by her husband. A1422.3
- Ring springs asunder when faithlessness of lover is learned. D1318.9.1
- Dead sweetheart haunts faithless lover. E211
- Dead lover haunts faithless sweetheart. E214
- Ghost of person abandoned by faithless lover. (Cf. E211ff.) E334.3
- King: Show me a ruby eight for a pice, nectar eight for a pice, and a faithless creature worth one-eighth of a pice. Minister: The lamp sells at eight for a pice and gives more light than any ruby; the water is the real nectar; and the dog is worthless and faithless lover because he follows anyone who feeds him. H587.1
- What is most faithless thing in world? H659.26
- Husband takes back faithless wife on her oath to be faithful. J2301.1
- Faithless wife ties sleeping husband's hair to bed, allowing lover to kill him. K713.1.7
- Amorous intrigue exposed and faithless husband humiliated. K1271.3
- The faithless wife asks her gullible husband how he would act if he were blind. The husband closes his eyes; meanwhile the lover escapes. K1516.6
- Faithless wife kills magic parrot which has betrayed her. K1591.0.1
- Disguised husband wins his faithless wife's love. K1813.1
- Disguised husband spies on his faithless wife. K1813.2
- Woman in disguise wooed by her faithless husband. K1814
- Woman disguised as pilgrim engages lover in conversation and learns of his faithlessness. (Cf. K1817.2.) K1837.2
- Faithless wife and paramour throw hero overboard. K2213.2
- Faithless wife plots with paramour against husband's life. (Cf. K2213.5.) K2213.3
- Faithless wife has husband and children killed so that she can be with paramour. K2213.3.1
- Faithless wife poisons husband to be with paramour. Paramour fearing a like fate refuses to go to her. K2213.3.2