μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • IcelandicBoberg
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Slanders.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Desiring woman they quarrel over, man accuses group of men of having abducted his wifeFalse queen puts horseflesh in bed of one with child so as to identify her as horse-eating thief
Filed beside it
Calumniated wifePotiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force herWoman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.)Princess disguised as man is accused of illicit relations with queenMan 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 substitutedInnocent person accused of murderCalumniated 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.)Innocent woman accused of using witchcraft. Sham sicknessWoman slandered as an ogressSlander: woman said to be possessed of demonsKnight falsely accused of seditionSlander: prince is bastardSlanders – miscellaneous

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