μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Innocent woman accused of killing her new-born children.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Slanders. · view the constellation · filed as K2116.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Welsh MacCulloch Celtic 94f.
  • Swiss Jegerlehner Oberwallis 311 No. 56
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Spanish Espinosa II Nos. 89, 99–103
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Africa (Zulu) Callaway 321. See also references to K2116.1.1.1.
  • general *Type 451
  • general BP I 70ff.
  • general *Dickson 43, 73 n. 26
  • general *Schlauch, Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 12
  • general *Hibbard 26ff.
Within the index

Filed under Innocent woman accused of murder.

1 finer motif beneath it
Innocent woman accused of eating her new-born children
Filed beside it
Queen falsely accused of having poisoned husband. Ignorant doctors cannot diagnose king's illness. Queen burned at stake Girl falsely accused of murdering her lover. Investigation reveals poisonous breath of toad as cause of death Incognito queen falsely accused of having killed child left in her care
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