μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Princess made to speak desired words when hero threatens to report (falsely) her amorous conduct.

Deceptions. · Deception into humiliating position. · Deception into humiliating position – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as K1271.1.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Sveinsson FFC LXXXIII No. 852.
  • general *Type 852
  • general *BP II 506
Within the index

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

Filed beside it
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 Educated 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 off Man hidden in roof sees girl and lover and falls: they flee and leave him in possession

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