K25a6. A magical wife does not forgive infidelity.

.13.15.19.21.27.30.34.41.-.45.55.61.

A woman from another world agrees to live with an earthly man, but leaves him after learning about his infidelity (about meeting an earthly wife). Cf. motive F94.

Nzakara, Latins, Keva, Garo, Ancient Greece, Bakhtiyars, Altaians, Tagish, Inner Tlingit, Helmet, Haida, Tsimshian, Sechelt, Western Ojibwa, Passamaquoddy, Shikuani, Siona.

Sudan - East Africa. Nzakara [the king's son is a virgin; he wants to marry only one of the daughters of heaven; he sees an old woman at the edge of heaven; lions appear, then snakes, he asks the old woman to save him, snuggles against her copulates; in the morning she turns into a beauty, smears him with perfume so that the inhabitants of the sky do not smell an earthly man; teaches one of the bathing girls ("angels") to hide the wings; she agrees take him to his father, because he assured her that he did not know other women; his wife works in the fields and around the house, but would not join him until 8 years later, unless he was angry with her during that time; before the end of his term An old woman comes; a young man drives her away, but his wife says that everyone in heaven is friendly to each other; the old woman reports that she has met the young man; the wife accuses him of lying, takes her wings, flies away; her parents are upset; the old woman has disappeared somewhere]: Retel-Laurentin 1986:57-63.

Southern Europe. Latins: Hyg. Fab. 25 [Myths attributed to Guy Julius Gigin, who lived at the turn of the Era, but most likely date back to the 1st and 2nd centuries: "When Medea, daughter of Eet and Idia, gave birth to Jason sons Mermer and Feret and she and her husband lived in in full agreement, he was reproached that such a brave, handsome and noble man had a foreign wife and a witch. Creon, Menekei's son, King of Corinth, married him his youngest daughter Glavka. When Medea saw that she had done so much for Jason and was so embarrassed, she made a golden wreath with potions and told her sons to take it as a gift to their stepmother. After receiving the gift, Creusa burned down along with Jason and Creon. When Medea saw the palace on fire, she killed her children by Jason Mermer and Feret and fled Corinth so that Jason brought the bulls under the yoke and killed the ever-awake dragon. After killing him, he used Vulcan's fire-breathing bulls to sow the dragon's teeth, where armed warriors were born. First they attacked Jason in vain, and then fell, killing each other in mutual murder. After all, these conditions were set by Aet, to whom Apollo replied that he would reign as long as this fleece was kept in the temple. Jason took possession of the Golden Fleece and then married Medea. But when he brought her rival Glavka, Creon's daughter, into his house, Medea gave her a tunic soaked in poison and garlic; when she put it on, she burned alive. Then Medea, unable to contain Jason's anger, fled on a winged dragon" (trans. D.O. Torshilova)]; I Myth. Vat. I. 25 ["The First Vatican Mythograph" (compiled at the turn of the I-II millennium by an unknown medieval compiler): "According to Apollo's answer, Jason went to the colchs to steal the Golden Fleece, that Frix dedicated to Mars. To get it, he had to first harness bulls, which were considered indomitable by the kolkhs. Then Medea, the greatest witch, admired Jason's beauty, used her potion to make Jason bring the bulls under the yoke and kill the ever-awake dragon. After killing him, he used Vulcan's fire-breathing bulls to sow the dragon's teeth, where armed warriors were born. First they attacked Jason in vain, and then fell, killing each other in mutual murder. After all, these conditions were set for him by Aet {Medea's father}, to whom Apollo replied that he would reign as long as this fleece was kept in the temple. Jason took possession of the Golden Fleece and then married Medea. But when he brought her rival Glavka, Creon's daughter, into his house, Medea gave her a tunic soaked in poison and garlic; when she put it on, she burned alive. Then Medea, unable to contain Jason's anger, fled on a winged dragon" (presented by Schol. Hor. Ep. III. 12 and Serv. Georg. II. 140; per. V.N. Yarkho)].

Melanesia. Keva [a man named Sumi Sama heads the village but is single; hears singing and music from Mount Sumi at night; came there; there's a tree to the sky; female stars go down and smear white clay faces, as it should be during the holidays; took shelter, hid, grabbed the last woman who went down for clay; she was the leader of heavenly women; she turned into a snake, a crocodile, a boar, a tree, a stone, water, prickly ratan; at dawn agreed to go with the SS, but let her do as she says; three weeks later, a holiday; the wife warned that the SS should not dance there with other women; made a thread out vegetable fiber and tied the SS to the back; if it breaks, trouble will happen; but during the holiday, the woman carried the SS into dancing and the thread burst; the SS ran home, but saw his wife climb the tree trunk; The SS made a ladder, but when it wanted to grab his wife's hand, he fell into a hole in the stone and crashed to death; since then, the SS bones have disappeared, but during rituals, men still use his skull; if the SS hadn't violated his wife's ban, men would still receive women freely, not for a fee]: Slone 2009:96-98.

Tibet is the Northeast of India. Garo [Daran young man saw Juge Balje's apsara swimming in the pond, hid her clothes; she called herself the daughter of a heavenly lord and agreed to marry; Apsara gave a white scarf with which you can take to the air, and a remedy for thirst and hunger; after 7 years, D. wanted to visit his parents and relatives; his wife let him down, promising to return for him in 3 years; relatives surprised that D. did not have children in 7 years; it turns out that the relationship was platonic; D. succumbed to persuasion and married, they have a child; then an apsara appeared; D. was desperate, cried out and died; for wives and domestic apsars remained invisible]: Rongmuthu 1960:48-53.

The Balkans. Ancient Greece: Eur. Med. [Euripides's tragedy Medea, staged in 431 BC: Jason is going to marry King Creon, the daughter of King Corinth; Medea, Y.'s wife, sends poisoned ashes and tiara to her rival; she tries them on and dies in agony; K., who tried to help his daughter, also dies; M. kills sons born of Y. and flies away in a chariot sent by her grandfather Helium and drawn by winged dragons]; Diod. Sic. IV. 54 ["Historical Library" by Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BC): "So, after settling in Corinth, he {Jason} lived for ten years with Medea, who gave birth to his sons, first twins Thessal and Alcimene, and then a third, much younger Tisander. It is said that Medea enjoyed Jason's great favor all this time, not only because she was beautiful, but also because she was adorned with prudence and other virtues. However, later, as time gradually destroyed this natural beauty, Jason fell in love with Creon's daughter Glavka and married the girl. After receiving his father's consent and having already set a wedding day, Jason initially tried to convince Medea to voluntarily give up his marriage, as he allegedly did not decide to marry to break off their relationship, but because it seeks to make their children relatives of the royal house. Calling out to the gods who witnessed his oaths, Medea said that Jason would marry the king's daughter, despising her vows. Sentenced to exile from the city, Medea received one day from Creon to train. After changing her appearance with potions, she entered the royal halls at night and set them on fire, adding some root found by her sister Pickaxe that had the power to burn everything to the ground and extinguish the fire was not possible. The palace immediately caught fire, but Jason jumped out quickly, while Glavka and Creon died in flames. Some writers report that Medea's sons brought potion-smeared gifts to the bride, and Glavka accepted them and put them on. That's when she was in trouble, but her father died because he touched her body while trying to help her daughter. Having successfully completed her first plan, Medea did not hesitate to punish Jason either. She became so angry, jealous, and ferocious that when he escaped danger without dying with his fiancée, Medea caused him terrible suffering by stabbing their common children. One of the sons managed to escape, but Medea stabbed the other two, [burying their bodies in the sanctuary of Hera,] and then fled with her most loyal maids from Corinth to Thebes in the middle of the night to Hercules. who, as a witness to the agreement concluded in Kolkhida, promised to help Medea if she was deceived" (trans. O.P. Tsybenko)]; Apollod. Bibl. I. 9. 28 [The Mythological Library of Pseudo-Apollodor (I-II centuries): "Acast, together with the inhabitants of Iolka, buried his father, while Jason and Medea expelled him from Iolka. They went to Corinth and lived happily there for ten years. But then, when King Corinth agreed to marry his daughter Glavka as Jason, he broke up with Medea and remarried. Medea began to appeal to all the gods Jason swore to, cursing him for his ingratitude. She also sent ashes to the bride, soaked in poison. She put it on and burned down with her father, who was trying to help her, in a strong flame. Medea killed the children Medea had with Jason, Mermer, and Feret, and after receiving a chariot drawn by winged dragons from Helios, she fled from Corinth. Others say that she ran away, leaving her young children praying for protection at the altar of Hera Akraya, but the Corinthians took them away from the altar and killed them. Medea, on the other hand, arrived in Athens and married Aegean there and gave birth to a son, who was named Honey. But later Medea began to plot against Theseus and was expelled from Athens with her son. He defeated many barbarians and named the entire country he conquered as Media. He died while marching against the Indus, but Medea returned to Colchis unrecognized. King Eet of Colchis had already been deprived of power by the time Medea returned. Medea killed Persian and returned royal power to her father" (trans. V.G. Borukhovich)].

Iran - Central Asia. Bakhtiyary [Faiz plays the flute in the mountains; peri invites him to visit her, he stays with her; she demands loyalty; after a few years F. asks for permission to return to visit his former family; peri warns that if he talks about her, he will not see her or their children again; F. returns, does not answer where he was; remaining invisible, Peri watches him; the first wife threatens to put an end to by himself, if the husband does not speak; then threatens to drive the children out of the house; then F. tells everything; hears Peri's voice: he will not see her or their children again; Peri turns into a dove and flies away; F. leaves the family, returns to the mountains and plays the flute]: Lorimer, Lorimer 1919, No. 35:232-235

Southern Siberia - Mongolia. The Altaians [Böö-kan, son of Kaldan Khan, saw three swans on the lake; caught one who turned out to be the daughter of Uch-Kurbustan; became her husband and took her to heaven; One day he went down to earth and, despite the prohibition of the magical wife, went to earth; she sewed a red thread to his clothes; when he returned, his heavenly wife drove him away; said that she would soon give birth to a son to Shuna, which BH will find on a full moon night under a birch tree wrapped in wolf skin, fed with milk from three maralukha]: Sherstova, 227, 232 in Sagalaev, Oktyabrskaya 1990:70.

Subarctic. Tagish [8 brothers saw a mouse, began to push her into the water, the youngest saved her; he has an unloved muddy wife; she invites him to marry the daughter of the Sun; he sees smoke over the grass, enters a tiny house, an old lady there; he falls asleep when he wakes up, finds himself in a big house, the old woman has cooked a lot of food; she gives him a piece of ice, a whetstone, two pieces of dried fish, tells him to bring skins blue jays and hummingbirds, buttercup stems, branches of various trees; in a clearing, shoot an arrow into the sky from the buttercup stem, then the second, then fire the rest of the arrows, they form a ladder to the sky; climbing it, he drags the stairs with him; he hears the ringing of a bell, it is the daughters of the Sun swinging on a swing (people did not know what a swing was before); wearing the skin of a jay, he flies up to the daughters of the sun, chases him away; then she flies up in the form of a hummingbird, the youngest of the sisters catches him, the eldest buys hummingbirds from her for a spoon from the abalone shell; in the morning the sisters wake up, the man lies between them; The sun sends a slave to find out what his daughters are doing, he reports that they are with a man; sisters tell the man that many men tried to marry them, but the father killed everyone; the Sun sends his son-in-law to bring water to There are two eagles, a man throws them food, they let it pass; The sun puts the man in the cauldron, cooks for a long time, but he is intact, clinging to the lid of the cauldron in the form of a hummingbird and holding a piece of ice; (then a pass to records; The sun sends the eldest daughter with the man to the ground, gives a pen; if the husband is not faithful, the pen will get wet); they come in a boat to the man's parents; he sends his younger brother to bring his wife, but the boy sees only a ray of sunlight in the boat; a ray enters the house, then turns into a woman; the first wife is jealous, clung to him when he went to get water, scratched it; the daughter of the Sun saw that the feather was wet ; it turns into a ray of sunlight, disappears; the next morning the heat intensifies; the first to die was the former wife, she jumped into the water; the world burned down; only that man, his brother and sister and their spouses hid under the river a cliff, they had that piece of ice; the Sun's daughter's husband came back to her, the rest stayed on earth]: McClelland 2007 (2), No. 53:282-288; inner tlingits [man lost everything; wife advises him marry the daughter of the Sun; he sees smoke above the grass, there is a door to a big house, there is a Little All-Knowing Old Woman in it; she gives the man birdskin, a piece of ice, a whetstone, a bow and 8 arrows; he hears in the clouds laughter, fires arrows, they dig into each other's tail, form a chain, he climbs it into the sky, puts on a blue jay skin; girls swing on a swing, chase a jay; puts on a hummingbird skin, the youngest catches a bird, takes it to bed, in the morning the sisters see a man next to him; their Sun Father offers his son-in-law a test of heat; the man takes a piece of ice in his mouth, unharmed; the Sun tells him not to cheat on his daughter, not meet an ex-wife; a man goes down to the ground with his new wife; goes to fetch water every day; one day he meets his first wife, she scolds her; when he comes back, the daughter of the Sun puts her in a bucket of water the feather, the water became muddy, the wife returns to her father; it causes terrible heat, all people died, except the man, because he held a piece of ice and a whetstone in his mouth; he returned to heaven to the daughter of the Sun]: McClennan 2007 (3), No. 136:617-620; helmet [After completing the difficult tasks of his cannibal father-in-law, Beaver receives his consent to marry his two daughters, takes them to the human world; father-in-law gives his daughters a pen that will be stay dry as long as their husband is loyal to them; one day Beaver meets his first wife; new wives see the feather wet, go up into the sky; it gets terribly hot, people die, alive only Beaver and his brothers remain; Beaver goes to look for his wives who have left him; his father-in-law comes to his overnight stay, replacing their hanged pants; Beaver throws his father-in-law's pants into the fire early in the morning; he admits his defeat, rises to the sky, he is the Sun]: Teit 1917a, No. 1:436-441.

NW Coast. Hyda: Reid, Bringhurst 1989 [The raven marries a Creek woman; the Wealthsound girl is their descendant; tells the young man who picked her up and his relatives how her brother threw a frog into the fire the frog's mother began to look for her child; the old men told Wealthsound to hide in a latrine, the rest were destroyed by the earthquake and fire; the boy's parents adopt a girl, she is of the same kind (theirs coat of arms - dogfish, little shark); W. are married to the mainland; her son complains that other children are teasing him rootless; mother and son are returning to the Haida Islands; her adoptive parents have already died; named Brother W. receives her and his nephew; finds him with his wife, puts him in a box, lets him go to sea; he is washed ashore in the country of Orlov, Orlitsa takes the young man as her husband, her father gives him eagle plumage, tells him miss the big clam; it is enough, dragged under water, the Eagles come to the rescue, each grabs the other, the whole chain of Eagles is almost hidden under water, the old Eagle pulls them out, but the young man remains under water; at the request of his wife, her father pulls his bones from the bottom, revives him; agrees to send his son-in-law and daughter to the country of people; gives three pebbles; when the young man and wife are tired of flying, they they throw a stone, it turns into an island, they spend the night on it; so three times; at home the young man finds his mother; all women want it, he reciprocates it; the eagle wife sees the water become cloudy and flies away; wearing eagle plumage, her husband flies after her; she tells him to return, he refuses; then she deprives him of his plumage, he falls into the sea; when he falls, he hears frog croaking]: 93-103; Tsimshian: Barbeau 1953 (b. Ness) [while the chief is hunting, the nephew sleeps with his wife; the chief finds lovers, kills his wife, glues his nephew with resin to the board, lowers him in the boat; the boat sticks to an unknown shore, the sun melted the resin; the mouse invites the young man to his uncle; various birds and animals sit in the house (in human form, but in appropriate clothes); the chief offers the young man a daughter as a wife; she gives him a stone to at night, he first knocked out her vaginal teeth; previous suitors all died; his wife gives eagle clothes, he helps pull the whale out, the Eagles respect him; father-in-law leaves the oyster bait, she drags her son-in-law to the bottom ; the wife is ready to kill herself; the chief raises the floor, moves the net at the bottom of the sea, pulls out his son-in-law's bones, revives; the young man misses home, gets three pebbles from his father-in-law; throws him into the sea on the way home , they turn into islands, the spouses rest on them; bring people food and wealth; taking the form of an eagle, the young man hunts; one day he cheats on his wife; she flies away, he flies after her, falls, drowns; at home, the wife- The eagle withers from grief; father-in-law revives her son-in-law again, he stays with the Eagles]: 42-52; Boas 1912 [starved, an aristocrat woman and her daughter were left alone; at night someone came in and slept with her daughter; then when she touched the fir bark, it fell down, and under it were increasingly large animals: squirrel, partridge, porcupine, beaver, mountain ram, black bear, grizzly; that man appeared (he also often appears nearby in the form of a bird whose scream brings good luck), said that he was sending game; then the animals fell in two; they built two houses to store meat; the father told him to name his son Asdi-Wâ'l, he has become a great hunter; he chases a polar bear, who makes passages through the rock, A. puts an onion in the crack and follows; after the bear he climbs the stairs to the sky; there is a blooming plain; a bear turns out to be the Evening Star, the daughter of the Sun; she warns that her father killed many of her suitors; her father-in-law tells 1) to hunt mountain sheep; the stars think A. is frozen in place, but he is only left his cloak and hat on the pole; A. entered the house where the mountain sheep were gathering; they beat the rhythm, and the shaman was kamlal; the shaman and the lamb jumped over his head, and killed the rest A., brought a lot of fat; 2 ) bring mountain water; she is in a cave, the entrance to which closes and then opens; the slave was crushed, and A. took out water; the Sun told the daughter to step over the bones of the crushed man and he came to life again; 3) bring firewood; wife: as soon as you touch the tree, the bark will fall and crush; under the tree there is a pile of bones of the dead; the tree fell on the slave, and A. is unharmed; the father-in-law revived the slave again and put the fallen tree; 4) lie down on hot stones (The Sun wants to bake and eat his son-in-law); A.'s father gave him pieces of ice under his arms, A. safe in the oven; since then, the Sun and all its star people have fallen in love with A.; A. wants to return to the mother, together with his wife, who has 4 baskets of meat, berries, etc., rolls down to the ground in the sunlight; every day the wife orders to bring water, puts a feather into the bucket - the water is clean; once A. met another girl, the water is covered with mucus, the wife has returned to her father; he follows her, falls when he almost reaches the sky, breaks, the Sun revives him; he lives with his wife again; they again return to earth; then the wife leaves altogether, and A. marries the chief's daughter; argues her four brothers, claiming that he is a better earner of marine animals than they are land animals; brings four bears, brothers come back empty-handed, pick up their sister; A. marries another girl, she gives birth to him a son; A. hunts walruses better than her four brothers, who leave him on a rock in the middle of the sea; a mouse takes him to an underground walrus house; he heals a wounded walrus; the walrus owner sends him home in a walrus stomach; his wife helps him kill her brothers; he goes hunting in the mountains, turns into stone]: 71-146.

The coast is the Plateau. Sechelt (syciatl) [the young man fell in love with the chief's most beautiful wife; the chief smeared his wife's bed with resin, threw the glued young man into the water along with the board he stuck to; the sun melted resin, the young man went to the other side of the sea; a mouse slave brought him to the house of young women; the mouse advises to choose the last wife; his father-in-law gives his son-in-law an eagle suit, his wife teaches him to fly, catch whales; his claws monsters get stuck in the back, eagles help, tear the monster apart; a born son wants to see his father's parents; father-in-law sends young people with a child in a self-propelled boat; in the husband's village, the wife feeds everyone with an inexhaustible supply of meat, even the Raven cannot eat his portion; the wife warns not to flirt with other women; the husband violates the ban, she walks on the waves, picking up her son; he follows; she turns around, he sinks]: Hill-Tout 1904a: 54-57.

The Midwest. Western Ojibwa (chippewa) [the young man's name is the Cloud Holder; in a dream, a Star comes to him, takes him to heaven; hides him from his brother; he allows them to marry; leads the young man to the hole in in the sky, throws something down; a boy on earth falls ill; recovers when shamans bring a white dog to the Star; the Star eats her with the Cloud Holder; the wife reluctantly lets the Cloud Holder go visit his family; he forgets her, marries an earthly girl; she and the next two wives die; for the fourth time, the Star takes him to heaven forever]: Spence 1985:156-159.

Northeast. Passamaquoddy [two brothers dream of having a mistress in their hunting lodge; the youngest returns first, finds clothes repaired, etc.; finds a woman, marries; brothers return to people; their father says that the woman is a dangerous demoness; her older brother shoots her, she flies away as a partridge; the youngest finds her; dies as soon as her father forces him to marry another woman]: Leland 1968:295-299.

Llanos. Sicuani [an ugly young man is rejected by everyone; Elanoides forficatus, swallow-tailed kite) turns into a woman, helps him catch flying ants, tells them before they fry, suppress with their fingernails; domestic boys try to fry everyone at once, ants fly away; a kite woman takes the young man into her world, makes him handsome; gives birth to a son; sends him to visit a grandmother who misses him; All the girls in the village are now in a hurry to get along with him; when the young man returns to his wife, kite, she warns him not to deal with earthly women anymore; he breaks the ban; she forgives him, but the next since the road to it completely disappears]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1992, No. 89:338-340.

Western Amazon. Zion [a man kills a deer; vultures flock, throw off their clothes, turn out to be men, women and children; worms are fish for them; a man hides a girl's clothes, brings her to himself, marries; she hides her clothes under the roof; she magically cooks chicha and manioc cakes, in her field cassava grows on stems rather than rhizomes; every time her clothes get wet, she falls ill, her husband dries clothes in the sun; takes her mistress; she asks her son to bring her clothes, flies to heaven in the land of vultures with both sons]: Chaves 1958:148-150.