False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treachery

Motif

False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treachery.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Slanders. · view the constellation · filed as K2112.1

Scholars’ trail — 10references

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.

India*Thompson-Balys
IndonesiaDeVries's list No. 311.
general *Types 882, 892
general *Köhler-Bolte I 211f.
general bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 257
general *Grünbaum Jüdischdeutsch Chrestomathie 421ff.
general *Paris Romania XXXII 481ff.
general *Hilka Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (1913) 16ff.
general Dunlop-Wilson II 73f.
general Chauvin VII 159. Italian Novella: *Rotunda

Within the index

Filed under Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Fingers as false token of wife's unfaithfulness. She has substituted a maid and the gallant has cut off the maid's finger

Filed beside it

Leper (beggar) laid in queen's bed. She is thus incriminated Man taking refuge in woman's house causes her false accusation Villain brings (threatens to bring) naked servant to woman's house. Threat of false accusation of indiscretion forces woman to yield Other means of incriminating innocent woman

Carried in tale types

The Wager on the Wife's Chastity · ATU 8821 recorded variant
The Children of the King · ATU 8921 recorded variant

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