μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 138 No. 63.
  • general *Fb "seng" III 187b
  • general *Child II 39ff.
  • general Hibbard 35, 285 n. 5
  • general *Dickson 166 n. 14
Within the index

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

4 finer motifs beneath it
Man puts donkey's foal under princess's bed-cover and accuses her of lying with itPage is duped into hiding under woman's bed (behind curtain)Maidservant's confederate feigns coming out of woman's bedroomFalse abortion placed in innocent woman's bed
Filed beside it
False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treacheryMan taking refuge in woman's house causes her false accusationVillain brings (threatens to bring) naked servant to woman's house. Threat of false accusation of indiscretion forces woman to yieldOther means of incriminating innocent woman

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