ATU 882 The Wager on the Wife's Chastity

ATU 882

The Wager on the Wife's Chastity

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

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Identification by ring. 1 variant
Entrance into woman's (man's) room by hiding in chest. 1 variant
Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.) 1 variant
False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treachery. 1 variant
Chastity wager. A man makes a wager on his wife's chastity. In spite of unsuccessful attempts to seduce her and of false proofs presented, he wins the wager. 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.