55 motifs match “falsely”  ·  back to the chapters

• Tabu: falsely claiming the powers of a god. C51.6
• Disenchantment of monster when prince promises to marry the monster's mother. The prince imagines falsely that the mother is also a monster. D741
• Maiden who has been falsely accused apparently dies of sorrow. She revives on being prepared for burial. F1041.1.3.1
• Devil as advocate of falsely condemned men. Carries off the judge. G303.22.11
• Person magically disfigured when he speaks falsely. H244
• Women swear falsely by their husbands and children, who immediately fall dead. H252.4.2
• 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
• Nurse's false plea admitted: child demanded. A nurse falsely demands pay for caring for a child which she says is the hero's. In court: "The child is indeed mine; give him to me." The child belongs to a peasant. Nurse confesses and is punished. J1162.1
• Woman exchanges a horse for a sack of bones. She has been falsely told that the sack is filled with gold. J2099.1
• Creditor falsely reported insane when he demands money. K242
• Trickster falsely announces marriage celebration and distracts owner's attention. K341.12
• Theft by reporting relative's sickness. Woman falsely told that her father is wounded leaves her water pot with jackal. K343.1.2
• Stolen goods left in suitor's room. Impoverished lover falsely accused so as to be rid of him. K401.3
• Money exacted from watchers who permit chest to be stolen. The chest is said falsely to be full of money and the watchers subject to severe punishment. K443.3.1
• Trickster exacts beautiful wife from curious people. They look into a carriage in which it is falsely said there is a princess. Trickster's dead wife is in the carriage. K443.6.1
• Dog buried instead of foster son, who is falsely reported killed so that he can safely be taken away. K525.6.1
• Escape by falsely reporting one's ability to escape. "I should be caught if there were not an escape at the back." When the captors run to the rear, the captive escapes. K542
• Escape by falsely reporting approach of rescuers. K545
• Man falsely reported insane. No one will believe him. K1265
• Princess made to speak desired words when hero threatens to report (falsely) her amorous conduct. K1271.1.2
• Trickster falsely reports impending invasion from his own people. Receives money to buy them off. K1784.1
• Man falsely claims to have killed elephant with his flat hand. Rewarded. K1787
• Sham traveler. Boasts falsely of voyage and receives canoes which he appropriates. K1969.1
• Love falsely pledged for wooer's benefit. K2094
• Falsely accused minister reinstates himself by his cleverness. K2101
• Falsely accused hero sent on dangerous mission. K2102
• Woman makes vain overtures to stepson and falsely accuses him of murder. She tries to poison him but her own son accidentally takes the beverage and apparently dies. Plot is revealed when doctor states that he had substituted sleeping potion for the poison. K2111.1
• Mother falsely accuses son of incest with her. K2111.5
• Girl falsely accuses bishop. K2111.6
• Giving madman food causes woman to be falsely accused. K2112.5.2
• Man falsely accused of infidelity. (Cf. K2121.) K2114
• 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
• 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
• King's faithful servant falsely accused of familiarity with queen. K2121.2
• 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
• Jealous monk falsely accuses novice of laziness. K2129.1
• City is falsely promised to enemy. When they enter they are attacked and defeated. K2366
• Faithful servant guarding master's wife from danger falsely condemned for betraying his master. N342.1
• Faithful son guarding his father from monster falsely accused by stepmother. N342.1.1
• Man falsely accused commits suicide. N347.6
• Serpent steals jewels: person falsely accused of theft. (Cf. N347.) N352.3
• King's son falsely accuses foster brother of attempt to seduce his sister. P273.2.3
• Friends offer to die for each other. (Bürgschaft.) Each falsely confesses crime so as to save the other. Neither guilty. Often combined with P325. P315
• Nose of falsely accusing bishop bitten off. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.5.3
• Jealous husband kills bird which wife falsely says she has been listening to. She has really been conversing with her lover. (Laüstic.) Q587
• Faithful servant locks his master and his friend up in a little house built from wood from their wrecked ships; they falsely think themselves betrayed. R53.4
• Man pays fine for enemy who is falsely accused. W11.5.7.1
• Benefactor falsely accused of theft by ungrateful youth. W154.13