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

Motif

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

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

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
English Wells 130 (Emare)
Missouri French Carrière
Italian Basile Pentamerone III No. 2, *Rotunda
Spanish Espinosa Jr. No. 137, Espinosa II Nos. 99–104
India *Thompson-Balys
N. Am. Indian Thompson CColl II 383
Indonesia DeVries's list No. 116
Africa (Basuto) Jacottet 190 No. 28, (Benga): Nassau No. 22.
general *Types 707, 710
general *BP I 13ff., 20, II 380ff.
general *Schlauch, Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 21
general *Huet Revue d'Ethnographie et de Sociologie II 200
general *Chauvin VII 97 No. 375 n. 1
general *Dickson 39ff. nn. 39, 40, 45
general Fb "kattekilling" II 111
general *Cox 486. Irish myth: Cross

Within the index

Filed under Slanders.

4 finer motifs beneath 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 Animal-descent slander. Malicious story that man is son of an animal Slander: woman has given birth to objects Prophecy of ogre-child so that pregnant woman will be killed

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 Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.) Princess disguised as man is accused of illicit relations with queen Man falsely accused of infidelity. (Cf. K2121.) 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 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.)

Carried in tale types

The Three Golden Children (previously The Three Golden Sons) · ATU 707 256 recorded variants

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