Legs of a corpse cause accusation of murder

Motif

Legs of a corpse cause accusation of murder.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Innocent made to appear guilty. · view the constellation · filed as K2152.2

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.

LithuanianBalys Index No. 1537A*
RussianAndrejev No. 1537 I*.

Within the index

Filed under Unresponsive corpse. Corpse is set up so that dupe addresses it and when it does not respond knocks it over. He is accused of murder. Most references to K2151 apply to this motif as well.

Filed beside it

Dead dog set up so that woman knocks it over. Must pay damages

Carried in tale types

Corpse's Legs Left · ATU 1537*1 recorded variant

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