83 motifs match “accused”  ·  back to the chapters

• Lizard loses lawsuit: must bob his head. Lizard and ant accused of theft of king's crow. Ant pours boiling water down lizard's throat. When case is tried, lizard cannot talk but only bobs head up and down. Adjudged guilty and condemned to bob his head eternally. (Cf. A2474.1.) A2255.2
• Wife demands magic parrot who has accused her. B335.4
• People who come on ship with sickness accused as magicians. D1711.12
• Strong man accused of being son of man and mare. F611.1.6.1
• Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. F1041.1.3.1
• Recognition by cup in sack: alleged stolen goods. Cup is placed in the sack of Joseph's brethren, they are accused of theft; this gives occasion for recognition. H151.4
• Voice from heaven testifies to innocence of accused. (Cf. F966.) H216.2
• Vindication by champion. Usually noble lady or king accused. H218.0.1
• Judge not that you be not judged: thus judge upbraided when he is later accused in court and claims mercy. J571.6
• Accused woman to go three times around building naked: guilty one begins to strip off her clothes. J1141.1.8
• Confession induced by bringing an unjust action against accused. False message to thief's wife to send the stolen jewel case as bribe to the judge. She does. J1141.4
• Testimony of unsuccessful suitor discredited. Adulteress is surprised in intrigue by unsuccessful suitor. He threatens to tell her husband. She tells her husband that the scorned suitor has accused her falsely of indiscretion with many men. When the suitor tells the husband he does not believe him. J1151.4
• Pleading for accused by means of parable. J1163
• Receiver of stolen goods. A tailor makes a Jew a coat of stolen goods. Accused of theft, he says that the Jew has the cloth. J1169.6
• Pouring water into the inkwell. Soldier accused of stealing slavegirl from author. Girl told to pour water into an inkwell. She does it so skillfully that she must have learned it from the author. J1176.1
• Dante is accused of not kneeling before sacrament. Says that he had his mind on God and did not remember what his body did. If those who criticized him had had their minds on God they would not have noticed it. J1261.2.5
• The church his wife. Priest accused of being too intimate with parishioners' wives says that the church is his wife and that the men treat her far more shamefully than he treats any woman. J1264.1
• Would be first in all things. Chaplain accused of being first to start all knavery thus defends himself. J1269.3
• The prince's excuse. King to son who has been accused of rape: "I never did anything like that." Prince: "Your father was not king!" King: "Your son will never be one if you keep that up!" J1289.6
• Were merely measuring cup. King demands that each subject bring small amount of milk to put in his new cup. They plan to cheat him by bringing him water. Accused, they say that they were merely measuring the cup to see how much it would take to fill it. J1391.7
• Christ accused of trying to fool the people. Fool sees the image of Christ elevated on Ascension Day to the beams of the church. He accuses Christ of having fooled the people into believing that he has gone to heaven. J1823.1.1
• Sea foolishly accused of cruelty. Sea says that it is calm itself, but the wind blew it up and broke the ship. J1891.3
• Woman thinks calf's bleating has accused her of stealing from harvest. Begs that people not believe what calf said. (Cf. N611.) J1895
• Testing the evidence by experiment: biting the ear off. The accused pleads that the plaintiff bit his own ear off. The judge takes time for consideration, tries to bite his own ear, but falls down and breaks his head. J2376
• The man is accused of maintaining a brothel. He has a bull for breeding purposes. J2521.1
• Obstacle race between deer and hare. Hare accused of removing obstacles from his course. K11.9
• Trickster eats food left by tiger (his trapping partner) at snare. Tiger accused of the theft. K372.1
• Stolen goods taken to dupe's house so that he is accused. K401.2
• Crow causes serpent to try to swallow a stolen collar and thus be accused of the theft. K401.2.1
• Stolen goods left in suitor's room. Impoverished lover falsely accused so as to be rid of him. K401.3
• The lamb without a heart. Accused of eating the lamb's heart, the thief maintains that it had no heart. K402
• The goose without a leg. Accused of eating the goose's leg, the thief maintains that it had no leg, and cleverly enforces his point by showing geese standing on one leg. (Usually the master confounds the rascal by frightening the geese so that they use both legs) K402.1
• The stolen pot pawned with the real owner. The thief gets a receipt from the owner and thus defends himself when accused of theft. K405.2
• Elephant cuts piece from own leg and puts it on shelf, lest he be accused of stealing meat. K407.3
• Wife accused of plan to escape weeps and threatens suicide so as to allay suspicion and escape. K579.1
• Paramour unwittingly drinks sleeping potion. Is thought dead and placed in a chest. Chest is stolen. When he escapes he is accused of being a robber. He is saved by his mistress's maid who explains all, transferring the role played by her mistress to herself. K675.1
• Falsely accused minister reinstates himself by his cleverness. K2101
• Falsely accused hero sent on dangerous mission. K2102
• Friar refuses to keep promise after enjoying woman and is accused of rape. Castrated. K2111.3
• Giving madman food causes woman to be falsely accused. K2112.5.2
• Princess disguised as man is accused of illicit relations with queen. K2113
• Girl disguised as man accused of infidelity. K2113.1
• Man falsely accused of infidelity. (Cf. K2121.) K2114
• Animal-birth slander. A woman is accused of having given birth to animals. Her children are put out of the way and animals substituted. K2115
• Innocent person accused of murder. K2116
• Innocent woman accused of murder. K2116.1
• Innocent woman accused of killing her new-born children. K2116.1.1
• Innocent woman accused of eating her new-born children. K2116.1.1.1
• Queen falsely accused of having poisoned husband. Ignorant doctors cannot diagnose king's illness. Queen burned at stake. K2116.1.2
• Girl falsely accused of murdering her lover. Investigation reveals poisonous breath of toad as cause of death. K2116.1.3
• Incognito queen falsely accused of having killed child left in her care. K2116.1.4
• Man falsely accused of murder. K2116.2
• Anchorite falsely accused of murder. K2116.2.1
• Man accused of having starved woman to death and taken treasure. K2116.2.2
• Murderer makes outcry so that innocent person is accused of murder. K2116.4
• Warrior falsely accused of having killed his sleeping adversary. Not supposed to have been able to do it if latter was awake. K2116.5
• 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.) K2117
• Brother accused of paternity of mystically impregnated sister. K2121.1
• King's faithful servant falsely accused of familiarity with queen. K2121.2
• Innocent woman accused of using witchcraft. Sham sickness. K2123
• Knight falsely accused of sedition. K2126
• King's advisor falsely accused of treason. Accusers exposed and punished. K2126.1
• King's man falsely accused of being in the secret service of another king. K2126.2
• Sick crew accused of being magicians so that nobody wants to have anything to do with them. K2129.2
• Family is accused of stinginess by recipients of their hospitality. K2129.4
• 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. K2151
• 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. K2152
• Criminal confesses because he thinks himself accused. N275
• Misunderstood message causes messenger to be killed (accused). N341
• Faithful son guarding his father from monster falsely accused by stepmother. N342.1.1
• Woman mistakenly accused of cannibalism. She is seen biting off finger of corpse to get its ring. N342.6
• Saint who entered house of ill fame to reform inmates accused of going with evil intent. N347.2
• Man falsely accused commits suicide. N347.6
• Serpent steals jewels: person falsely accused of theft. (Cf. N347.) N352.3
• Friend gives false witness to set free his accused friend. P315.2
• Guests accused of greediness. P334.1
• Woman who accused saint of raping her is struck by lightning. (Cf. Q263.) Q552.1.7
• Birth of child prevented until girl confesses slander. She has accused a bishop of fathering the child. Q559.5.1
• Judge reduces penalty when accused is his own son. [Inadvertant duplication of J1197.] U21.5
• Wolf unjustly accuses lamb and eats him. When all the lamb's defenses are good the wolf asserts the right of the strong over the weak. (Usually accused of stirring up water from lower in stream.) (Cf. U141.) U31
• Virgin Mary defends innocent accused. V252
• Man pays fine for enemy who is falsely accused. W11.5.7.1
• Benefactor falsely accused of theft by ungrateful youth. W154.13