μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 27references

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.

  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist mythMalalasekera II 660
  • ChineseGraham
  • HawaiiBeckwith Myth 152.
  • general *Types 712, 883A
  • general **Wallensköld Le conte de la femme chaste convoitée par son beaufrère (Acta Societatis Fennicae XXXIV, Helsingfors, 1907)
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 392, 582
  • general *BP I 18, 305 n. 1, Chauvin VI 159 No. 323, *167 No. 327
  • general Ward II 680
  • general Herbert III 342
  • general *Dickson 72, 166 n. 12
  • general *bin Gorion Born Judas 2d ed. I 361f.
  • general *Wesselski Mönchslatein 136 No. 116
  • general Alphabet Nos. 147, 672
  • general **J. Kentenich Die Genovefalegende (Trier, 1927)
  • general Oesterley No. 249

Showing a bounded trail of 27 from 27 references.

Within the index

Filed under Slanders.

5 finer motifs beneath it
False tokens of woman's unfaithfulness. Tokens are stolen from the woman, or her secret markings are seen by treacheryLeper (beggar) laid in queen's bed. She is thus incriminatedMan 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
Filed beside it
Calumniated wifePotiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force herPrincess 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
Travels with
Calumniated woman intercedes for accusers. (Cf. K2112.)
Carried in tale types

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