ATU 318 The Faithless Wife

ATU 318

The Faithless Wife

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Tales Of Magic · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Repeated transformation. Transformation into one form after another. 1 variant
Potiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force her. 1 variant
Treacherous wife. 1 variant
Woman deserts husband for unworthy lover. (Deformed, mutilated, monstrous, or of different race.) 1 variant

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.