28 motifs match “slander”  ·  back to the chapters

• Woman slandered as adulteress is thrown into lion pit. Lions do not harm her. B522.3
• Quest assigned as result of slander. H1219.6
• Picking up water thrown on ground no harder than the undoing of slander. J84
• Reductio ad absurdum of accusation: object-birth slander. (Later children tell toy animals to drink. No harder than for woman to bear objects.) J1191.5
• Man absents self from church because he does not like to hear people slandered. J1269.2
• The cynic and the bald-headed man. His only reply to the baldheaded man's slanders is to compliment the hair that has left such a horrible head. J1442.9
• Uncle entrusted with niece's patrimony slanders her so marriage will be broken off and he will not have to part with her money. K361.5
• Brothers duped into killing each other by slander that one of them is father to the other's child. K1092
• When wolf pretends to slander tiger fox agrees; later tells tiger he was trying to test wolf's malice. K2043
• Slanders. K2110
• Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.) K2112
• 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
• Animal-descent slander. Malicious story that man is son of an animal. K2115.1
• Slander: woman has given birth to objects. K2115.2
• Log-birth slander. K2115.2.2
• Man slandered as having deflowered princess. (Cf. K2114.) K2121
• Woman slandered as an ogress. K2124
• Slander: woman said to be possessed of demons. K2125
• Slander: prince is bastard. K2128
• Slanders – miscellaneous. K2129
• Slanderers kill a woman and put her body near Buddha's cell. K2155.2
• Slandered queen chances to be in Rome at the same time as her estranged husband. Reconciled by the Pope. N741.3
• Slander punished. Q297
• Arms cut off as punishment for slandering. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.1.7
• Lips sewed together as punishment for slander. (Cf. Q263.) Q451.12
• Fire from heaven consumes adulterous wife who has slandered an abbot. (Cf. Q227, Q414.0.3.) Q552.13.3
• Birth of child prevented until girl confesses slander. She has accused a bishop of fathering the child. Q559.5.1
• Slandered wife is locked in tower for forty days. If no champion appears, she is to be burned. Former suitor rescues her. R41.2.1