μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Innocent woman accused of using witchcraft. Sham sickness.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Slanders. · view the constellation · filed as K2123

Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Buddhist myth Malalasekera I 427.
Within the index

Filed under Slanders.

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 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.) 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

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