The handbook of folklore / [Charlotte Sophia Burne].

  • Charlotte Sophia Burne
Date:
1914
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The handbook of folklore / [Charlotte Sophia Burne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. Penelope type. 1. The man goes on his travels, and the wife is left at home. 2. She awaits his return in fidelity. 3. He returns to her. 5. Genoveva type. 1. The man goes to war, and the wife remains at home. 2. A false charge is brought against the wife, and he orders her death. 3. She is driven away, but not killed. 4. The husband on his return discovers his mistake. 5. He finds her again, and they are reunited. 6. Punchkin or Life-Index type. 1. A giant with his soul hidden in some external object (‘‘ Life Index ’’) marries a woman who has a lover. 2. The lover seeks and finds her, and urges her to kill her husband. 3. She tries to discover where the Life-Index is, and the giant puts her off several times, but at last tells the secret. 4. She destroys the Life-Index, and thus kills her husband, and 5. Elopes with her lover. 7. Samson type (cf. 6). 1. The husband has giant strength residing in some external object. 2. The wife, unfaithful to him, asks him his secret; he refuses long to reveal it, and at last does so. 3. She betrays the secret to his enemies, and he is ruined. 8. Hercules type. 1. The husband has giant strength. 2. A former lover of his wife, who is true to him, determines to cause his death, and persuades the wife to make him a present. 3. She does so without intending harm, and he is killed by it. 9g. Serpent Child type. 1. A mother has no child. She says she would like to have one, were it a serpent or a beast. 2. She is brought to bed of a child as she had desired.
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