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Motifs — first 20 of 27
- Why tigers do not kill women who run away after quarreling with their husbands. A2499.1
- Tabu: women marrying until hero has chosen their husbands. C566.4
- Sorceress to lose her magic power as soon as one of her transformed husbands seizes her and swallows her. D1749.1
- Vagina dentata. Woman kills her husbands with her toothed vagina. F547.1.1
- Poison damsel. Woman nourished on poison is fatal to her husbands. Sometimes the poisoning is from fatal look or breath, sometimes from intercourse. F582
- Women swear falsely by their husbands and children, who immediately fall dead. H252.4.2
- Tests for true husbands. H422
- Crown exposes infidelity of husbands. H422.1
- Wit combat among three sisters for additional dowry. Replies to husbands when their premarital pregnancy is noticed. H507.4
- Riddle: why are there more women than men? (Some women make women [i.e., weaklings] of their husbands.) H774
- Advice not to rob women while they are alone, for fear of returning husbands' revenge. J647.2
- Detection through ruse. Husbands ask suspected priest to talk to wives on tithing, and thus obtain sufficient evidence to convict him. J1141.11
- The woman with two husbands is to be killed. One of the husbands refuses to bury her. She is awarded to the other. J1171.3
- The besieged women's dearest possession. (Women of Weinsberg.) Permitted to carry from the city their dearest possession, they take their husbands. J1545.4.1
- Gullible husbands. (Cf. J2311.0.1., J2311.2, J2311.7, J2312, J2313, J2314, J2315, J2316, J2324, J2331.) J2301
- Wagers on wives, husbands, or servants. N10
- Husbands wager that they will be able to do what wives tell them to do. One is told to drown himself: loses wager. N13
- Wager: woman can be forced to give alms. Trickster announces that only those who have deceived their husbands are exempt. N67
- Wives change clothes with their imprisoned husbands when allowed to visit them. Husbands escape. R152.3
- Polyandry. Woman with two husbands. T146