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Motifs — first 20 of 147
- Man attempts to kill faithful serpent at wife's instigation. Loses everything. B335.1
- Husband ties a cock near wife's feet: snake-parasite in her stomach comes out to catch the cock and is killed by husband. B784.2.1.2
- Tabu connected with husband's or wife's relatives. C170
- Dream warns emperor of wife's unfaithfulness. D1813.1.1
- Whale husband makes wife's eyes impervious to sea water. D1841.4.5
- Husband resuscitated after wife's nose is cut off and thrown over grave. E165.2
- Dead husband returns to reprove wife's second husband (lover). E221.3
- Dead husband returns to protest wife's spending his money. E221.4
- Dead wife's friendly return. (Cf. E221.2.) E322
- Vigil of husband at wife's grave calls her forth. E385
- Dead man visiting wife deceived by wife's absurd actions – "no more absurd than ghost visiting wife". (Cf. E321.2, E474.) E432.2
- Journey to sky-world by riding unseen in supernatural wife's chariot. F66.1.1
- Husband shoots arrows, barely missing wife's ears. F661.9.1
- Man shoots pearls from wife's nose-ring. F661.10
- Husband concealed in wife's ear. F1034.1
- Death from hearing of wife's death. F1041.1.2.2.3
- Man dies on learning of wife's adultery. F1041.1.3.5
- Moon made to eat wife's corpse by mother-in-law. G27
- Husband becomes cannibal from eating wife's breast. She cuts off her breasts and cooks them to feed her family. The husband thus acquires a longing for human flesh. G36.1
- Devil visible to one who walks in minister's (or minister's wife's) holy shoes (galoshes). G303.6.2.4
Tale types
- ATU 1352 The Devil Guards the Wife's Chastity
- ATU 1352A The Tale-Telling Parrot (previously Seventy Tales of a Parrot Prevent a Wife's Adultery)
- ATU 1357* Wife's Duty to Have Lovers
- ATU 1359B Husband Meets the Lover in the Wife's Place
- ATU 1372* The Wife's Disease
- ATU 1378 The Marked Coat in the Wife's Room
- ATU 1378B* Wife's Temporary Success
- ATU 1385 The Foolish Wife's Security (previously The Foolish Wife's Pawn)
- ATU 1408 The Man who Does his Wife's Work
- ATU 1419F Husband Frightened by Wife's Lover in Hog Pen