ATU 1365B    ATU 1365B   

ATU 1365B: Alle volksverhalen

- Cutting with the Knife or the Scissors.

Cutting with the Knife or the Scissors. A wife argues with her husband, insisting that a meadow has been cut with scissors instead of a scythe (that he has cut his beard rather than shaved his face). The fight goes on until the angry husband pushes his wife into a river.
As she drowns, she continues to argue by making scissors-motions with her fingers [T255.1]. Cf. Types 1365A, 1365C.

T255.1

Documented in the Middle Ages, e.g. Jacques de Vitry, Sermones vulgares (Jacques de Vitry/Crane, No. 222).

1164, 1365A.

1365B

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