μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 14references

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.

  • Jewish*bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 257
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 107 No. 891*
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 526, 536
  • N. Am. Indian*Thompson CColl II 385ff.
  • Africa (Wakweli)Bender 96.
  • general *Types 451, 706, 707, 712, 883A, 892
  • general BP I 20, 79ff., *86, 99ff., 295ff., II 121ff., 273, 380ff., *392, III 85ff., 488
  • general **Arfert Das Märchen von der unterschobenen Braut
  • general Hibbard 21ff., 35
  • general **Schlauch Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 12ff.
  • general *Kittredge Arthur 241 n. 1
  • general *Cox 478, 501
  • general Irish myth *Cross
Within the index

Filed under Slanders.

1 finer motif beneath it
Man's mistress accuses his wife of having leprosy
Filed beside it
Potiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force herWoman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.)Princess disguised as man is accused of illicit relations with queenMan falsely accused of infidelity. (Cf. K2121.)Animal-birth slander. A woman is accused of having given birth to animals. Her children are put out of the way and animals substitutedInnocent person accused of murderCalumniated wife: substituted letter (falsified message). The letter announcing the birth of her children changed on the way to the king, so that the queen is falsely accused. (Cf. K2115, K2116.)Man slandered as having deflowered princess. (Cf. K2114.)Innocent woman accused of using witchcraft. Sham sicknessWoman slandered as an ogressSlander: woman said to be possessed of demonsKnight falsely accused of seditionFalse accusation of theftSlander: prince is bastardSlanders – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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