Husband's letter ordering the calumniated wife to be treated well is altered into an order of execution — Mythoi

Motif

Husband's letter ordering the calumniated wife to be treated well is altered into an order of execution.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Slanders. · view the constellation · filed as K2117.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under 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.)

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