Innocent man compelled to write treasonable letter. It brings about his death sentence

Motif

Innocent man compelled to write treasonable letter. It brings about his death sentence.

Deceptions. · False accusations. · Innocent made to appear guilty. · view the constellation · filed as K2156

“Aeneas, son of Anchises, and with him Archelochus and Acamas, sons of Antenor, and Theanus, leaders of ‘the Dardanians; of the Thracians, Acamas, son of Eusorus ; of the Cicones, Euphemus, son of Troezenus ; of the Paeonians, Pyraechmes; of the Paphlagonians, Pylaemenes, son of Bilsates; from Zelia, Pandarus, son of Lycaon ; from Adrastia, Adrastus and Amphius, sons of Merops; from Arisbe, Asius, son of Hyrtacus ; from Larissa,…”

— The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33 · served from our shelf uncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

On our shelf — the index’s citations, resolved to served chapters

GreekThe Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33Thompson cites: Frazer Apollodorus II 178 n. 1 (Palamedes).

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

GreekFrazer Apollodorus II 178 n. 1 (Palamedes). → on our shelf: The Library (Bibliotheca), APOLLODORI BIBLIOTHECA, ch. 33

Within the index

Filed under Innocent made to appear guilty.

Filed beside it

The corpse handed around. (The thrice-killed corpse.) Dupes are accused of murder when the corpse is left with them. The trickster is paid to keep silent 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 Trickster wounds self and accuses others Evidence of crime left so that dupe is blamed Sham blind man throws suspicion on real blind. He admits his deception so that his companion, who is really blind, is punished The dog receives the blows. The cat steals a sausage from the table but the dog receives the blows from the mistress Rats cause cats to be killed. The rats unite and all go to houses together, increasing or decreasing their ravages with the increase or decrease in the number of cats. Thus the cats are suspected of the damage and are killed Grandmother causes grandchildren to be whipped: puts dirt and hairs into cooking pot by stealth and sand in the water they draw [First Edition: K2190. Other false accusations.]

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Bag of winds. Wind is confined in a bag. Man breaks prohibition against looking into bag and releases winds Transformation: man to swine Transformation: woman to bitch Transformation: man to dove Transformation: man (woman) to almond tree Transformation by drinking Disenchantment from tree form by embrace of lover Moly: magic plant Magic lotus plant. (Cf. D975.1.)Magic drink Magic chair Lotus causes forgetfulness. (Cf. D965.6, D2004.3.)

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