μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Animal-descent slander. Malicious story that man is son of an animal.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Slanders. · view the constellation · filed as K2115.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Animal-birth slander. A woman is accused of having given birth to animals. Her children are put out of the way and animals substituted.

Filed beside it
Jealous queens tell child-bearing queen to put her head in the hole at the bottom of grain-bin, so that she fails to see what she delivers Slander: woman has given birth to objects Prophecy of ogre-child so that pregnant woman will be killed

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