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

Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller
Italian Novella *Rotunda
Jewish *Neuman
India *Thompson-Balys
Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 660
Chinese Graham
Hawaii Beckwith 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

…and 8 more.

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 treachery 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

Filed beside it

Calumniated wife Potiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force her 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

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Calumniated woman intercedes for accusers. (Cf. K2112.)

Carried in tale types

Crescentia · ATU 712 6 recorded variants
The Mother who Did not Bear Me but Nourished Me · ATU 713 4 recorded variants
Brother and Sister · ATU 872* 1 recorded variant
Oft-proved Fidelity · ATU 881 1 recorded variant
The Innocent Slandered Maiden · ATU 883A 1 recorded variant

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