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, and the motifs below are the doors onward.

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.