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- Shooting stars are unfaithful wives. A788.5
- Animals sources of food because they were once unfaithful, disobedient wives of a visitor from god-country. A1422.0.1
- Unfaithful husband loses magic wife. C31.12
- Dream warns emperor of wife's unfaithfulness. D1813.1.1
- Recognition of wife's ring in friend's possession informs husband of her unfaithfulness. H94.0.1
- Chastity index. Objects indicate faithfulness or unfaithfulness of separated lovers (husband or wife). H430
- Rose as chastity index. Fading rose indicates unfaithfulness. (Cf. D975.2.) H432.1
- Three roses fall as sign of unfaithfulness. H432.1.1
- King overlooks wife's unfaithfulness rather than to cause troubles of state. J221.1
- Man rebukes servants for telling him of his wife's unfaithfulness. J221.1.2
- Choice: staying at home with loving wife or going to tavern and having unfaithful wife. Man chooses latter. J229.1
- Man with unfaithful wife comforted. J882
- Man with unfaithful wife comforted when he sees the queen's unfaithfulness. J882.1
- Man with unfaithful wife comforted when he sees jealous husband who carefully guards wife cuckolded. J882.2
- Husband refuses to believe that his wife is unfaithful, even when she is caught in the act. J2342.1
- 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 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
- Unfaithful wife communicates with lover by pouring milk into stream. K1549.5
- False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treachery. K2112.1