Beschrijving
The slandered and banished wife is reinstated through her miraculous healing powers. Cf. Type 881.
I. The Slandered Wife. (a) She is accused of adultery by her lecherous brother-in-law, with whom she is left by her absent husband. (b) At the home of a robber who has taken her in, her brother-in-law kills her child, smears her mouth with blood, and accuses her so that she is again banished.
II. Reinstatement. (a) Through her miraculous power of healing she reaches a high position. (b) Her husband and the various men whose love she has repulsed come to her for healing. (c) Recognition and reconciliation.
Motief
K2110.1
S410
K2211.1
K2112
N884
K2155.1
K2116.1.1.1
D2161
H151.8
S451
Commentaar
I. K2110.1. Calumniated wife. S410. Persecuted wife. K2211.1. Treacherous brother-in-law. K2112. Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). N884. Robber as helper. K2155.1. Blood smeared on innocent person brings accusation of murder. K2116.1.1.1. Innocent woman accused of eating her new-born children.
II. D2161. Magic healing power. H151.8. Husband attracted by wife's power of healing: recognition follows. S451. Outcast wife at last united with husband and children.
II. D2161. Magic healing power. H151.8. Husband attracted by wife's power of healing: recognition follows. S451. Outcast wife at last united with husband and children.
Subgenre
sprookje
Literatuur
**A. Wallensköld Le conte de Ia femme chaste convoitée par son beau-frère (Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae XXXIV, Helsingfors 1907)
*BP 118 n. 1
*Köhler-Bolte I 392, 582. - Literary Treatments: Straparola I No. 4
Chauvin VI 159, 323
Ward Catalogue of Romances II 680.