μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • LithuanianBalys Legends No. 890
  • Italian NovellaRotunda.
  • general *Types 1360, 1776
  • general Wesselski Morlini 303 No. 54
Within the index

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

3 finer motifs beneath it
Man having seen woman and lover from roof threatens to tell about it; is paid to stopMan hidden in roof (or elsewhere) sees girl and lover: blows horn. They flee and leave him in possessionObserver of intrigue insists on sharing in it (or enjoys the girl after putting the man to flight)
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 grantedPrincess 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 off
Carried in tale types

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