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Motifs — first 20 of 21
- Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-country. A1422.0.1
- Fairy mistress strikes her disobedient human lover on the face and predicts death. F361.17.9
- 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
- "Go to Goosebridge": counsel proved wise by experience. Man with disobedient wife finds mules beaten there and made to cross bridge. J21.16
- The obedient log. A fool sees a boat (with rowers) obedient to commands, "Right! Left!" etc. He asks what kind of wood the boat is made of. Later he gets a log of that wood and tries to make it obey commands. J1828
- Obedient woman's pestle remains magically suspended in air. J2411.9
- The obedient husband: the leave of absence. His wife says, "You may go away for a little while." He stays away for days and then sends a messenger to his wife asking if he has been away long enough. J2523
- Obedient husband hangs his wife. Wife had wished only to test her husband's love for her. J2523.1
- Obedient husband walks slowly. Arrives home after dawn when wife's lover has gone. J2523.2
- Wager on the most obedient wife. The husband tames his shrewish wife so that he wins the wager. N12
- Dead mother appears and makes disobedient child eat fatal serpent. (Cf. Q325.) Q593
- Disobedient children cast forth. S326
- Disobedient child burned. S326.1
- Taming the shrew. By outdoing his wife in shrewishness the husband renders her obedient. T251.2
- Wife becomes obedient on seeing husband slay a recalcitrant horse. T251.2.3
- The disobedient wife. T254
- Man with obedient wife looks young; with disobedient, old. T254.3
- Disobedient wife punished. T254.6
- Obedient and industrious nun the worthiest in the convent. V461.1
- Monk obedient only as long as work is agreeable. Always says that unpleasant work is beneath his dignity. W126.1