μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

The bag of lies: threat to tell of queen's adultery. The boy, who is to tell the bag of lies, is stopped and his wishes granted.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Deception into humiliating position – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as K1271.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • IcelandicSveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 570
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 2904*
  • Russiancf. Andrejev No. 1630*
  • SpanishEspinosa II Nos. 5–8.
  • general *Type 570
  • general *BP III 273
Within the index

Filed under Threat to tell of amorous intrigue used as blackmail.

Filed beside it
Princess made to speak desired words when hero threatens to report (falsely) her amorous conductEducated chickens tell of woman's adultery. A trickster undertakes to teach a woman's chickens to talk. When he reports that they are saying that she has slept with the priest, she pays him offMan hidden in roof sees girl and lover and falls: they flee and leave him in possession
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