μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Calumniated wife.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Slanders. · view the constellation · filed as K2110.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish *bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 257
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 107 No. 891*
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera 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 her Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.) Princess disguised as man is accused of illicit relations with queen Man 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 substituted Innocent person accused of murder Calumniated 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 sickness Woman slandered as an ogress Slander: woman said to be possessed of demons Knight falsely accused of sedition False accusation of theft Slander: prince is bastard Slanders – miscellaneous
Carried in tale types

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