ATU 1365C    ATU 1365C   

ATU 1365C: Alle volksverhalen

- The Wife Insults the Husband as Lousy-head.

The Wife Insults the Husband as Lousy-head. A wife accuses her husband of being a lousy-head (i.e. being a miser). He throws her into the river. Even as she sinks, she continues to accuse him by holding up her hands and snapping her fingers together as if she is cracking lice [T255.3]. Cf. Types 1365A, 1365B.

T255.3

Documented in the Middle Ages, e.g. Jacques de Vitry, Sermones vulgares (Jacques de Vitry/Crane, No. 221). Further early literary treatment, see Poggio, Liber facetiarum (No. 59).

1164.

1365C

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