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

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

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys
Indonesia DeVries'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 882 1 recorded variant
The Children of the King · ATU 892 1 recorded variant

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