ATU 891 The Man who Deserted his Wife (previously The Man who Deserts his Wife and Sets her the Task of Bearing him a Child)

ATU 891

The Man who Deserted his Wife (previously The Man who Deserts his Wife and Sets her the Task of Bearing him a Child)

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

Task left by departing husband for virgin wife to accomplish: have a son whose real mother she is and whose real father he is. She accomplishes this by disguising as a girl. 1 variant
Woman in disguise wooed by her faithless husband. 1 variant
Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.) 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.