Innocent woman accused of eating her new-born children — Mythoi

Motif

Innocent woman accused of eating her new-born children.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Slanders. · view the constellation · filed as K2116.1.1.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Types 652, 706, 710, 712
general *BP I 13ff., 18 n. 1, 20, II 121ff.
general Köhler-Bolte I 392, 582
general Chauvin VI 159 No. 323
general *Dickson 38ff. nn. 34, 42, 45, 48, 49

Within the index

Filed under Innocent woman accused of killing her new-born children.

1 finer motif beneath it

Bones of puppies as false evidence of wife's having eaten her new-born child

Carried in tale types

Crescentia · ATU 712 4 recorded variants

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