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Motif

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.)

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Spanish Espinosa II No. 119
  • Italian Basile Pentamerone III No. 2, Rotunda.
  • general *Type 706
  • general *BP I 295ff.
  • general Hibbard 26ff.
  • general *Schlauch, Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (New York, 1927) 12ff.
Within the index

Filed under Slanders.

1 finer motif beneath it
Husband's letter ordering the calumniated wife to be treated well is altered into an order of execution
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.) Animal-birth slander. A woman is accused of having given birth to animals. Her children are put out of the way and animals substituted Innocent person accused of murder 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.)
Animal-birth slander. A woman is accused of having given birth to animals. Her children are put out of the way and animals substituted Innocent person accused of murder
Carried in tale types

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