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Motifs
- Wager on the most obedient wife. The husband tames his shrewish wife so that he wins the wager. N12
- Punishment: marrying shrewish wife. Q599.1
- The shrewish wife. T251
- Avoiding the shrewish wife. T251.1
- Belfagor. The devil frightened by the shrewish wife. A man persuades his shrewish wife to let herself be lowered into a well. When he comes to pull her out he raises a genie (devil) who is glad to escape from the woman. Later he frightens the devil by telling him that his wife has escaped. T251.1.1
- Devil flees shrewish wife and enters body of a duke. Exorcised by telling him that they are sending for his wife. T251.1.1.1
- Late husband chooses to remain in Purgatory rather than to return to his shrewish wife. T251.1.2
- Husband chooses to go to hell rather than join shrewish wife in heaven. T251.1.2.1
- Man had rather remain transformed to mule than to live with his shrewish wife. T251.1.3
- Man forces devil to take back the shrewish wife. T251.1.4
- Taming the shrew. By outdoing his wife in shrewishness the husband renders her obedient. T251.2
- Shrewish wife driven from home but when in danger, runs to husband and receives protection. She is a good wife thereafter. T251.2.5
- Strength in words, in herbs, and in stones. When first two do not cure shrewish wife, the last does. (Cf. J1563.6, J1581.2, J2412.5.) T251.5
- Husband will not search for shrewish wife who has run away from him. T251.7
- Shrewish wife gives husband beating every morning. T251.8
- Husband consoled by seeing woman even more shrewish than his wife. (Cf. J882.) T251.9
- Fakir thankful for shrewish wife: she is a thorn in his flesh and warns him from neglecting the ways of righteousness. T251.11