Faithful servant guarding master's wife from danger falsely condemned for betraying his master

Motif

Faithful servant guarding master's wife from danger falsely condemned for betraying his master.

Chance and fate. · Unlucky accidents. · Hasty killing or condemnation (mistake). · view the constellation · filed as N342.1

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

ItalianBasile Pentamerone IV No. 9
India*Thompson-Balys
KoreanZong in-Sob 155ff. No. 68.
general *Type 516
general *BP I 42ff.
general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 129

Within the index

Filed under Hasty condemnation of man who accidentally becomes suspected of crime.

1 finer motif beneath it

Faithful son guarding his father from monster falsely accused by stepmother

Filed beside it

Stumbling over bloody corpse brings accusation of murder. Man gets blood on himself Jealous and overhasty man kills his rescuing twin brother False accusation overheard causes hasty killing Angry brother kills husband, thinking latter had killed wife (sister) and baby Woman mistakenly accused of cannibalism. She is seen biting off finger of corpse to get its ring

Carried in tale types

Faithful John · ATU 51636 recorded variants
The Brothers Guarding the King's Bedchamber and the Snake · ATU 9161 recorded variant

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