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Motifs — first 20 of 32
- Return from dead as punishment for trying to raise ghost. (Cf. E384ff., F491.7.) Ghost accuses man of stealing a trifle and thus has revenge. E235.3
- Devil accuses congregation of sins. G303.24.1
- The girl screams when she is robbed. Accuses young man of raping her. When he tries to rob her of money she summons help. Decision: if she had shouted as loud before, the man could not have raped her. Youth acquitted. J1174.3
- Measuring the dregs. Some full and some half-full wine casks left with man by neighbor, who accuses him of theft. Fraud of accusation detected by measuring the dregs. J1176.2
- The envious accuser. A woman accuses another of being a harlot. The second: "You would like to be in my place but no one wants you." J1351.2
- Unjust action brought to inform king of judge's malfeasance. Husband is imprisoned and wife detained by judge. She accuses her husband of having stolen her. J1675.1.2
- 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
- The wall accuses the crowbar. But the man who uses the crowbar is to blame for the downfall of the wall. J1966
- Thief accuses his companion of having stolen the gold they have both stolen. K401.0.1
- Thief successfully accuses owner of having stolen property he covets. K401.5
- Fox eats his fellow-lodger: accuses another and demands damages. He spends the night with a cock in a house. He eats the cock but in the morning accuses the sheep of having eaten it. In the next inn likewise he says that the ox has eaten the sheep, etc. In compensation he demands a larger animal each time. K443.7
- Counselor accuses conspirators in order to confiscate their estates. K487
- Trickster throws corpse into river and accuses princess of murder: marriage to avoid scandal. K1383
- Man's mistress accuses his wife of having leprosy. K2110.1.1
- Potiphar's wife. A woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force her. K2111
- 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
- Spurned woman accuses man of theft. K2111.2
- Mother falsely accuses son of incest with her. K2111.5
- Girl falsely accuses bishop. K2111.6
- Man puts donkey's foal under princess's bed-cover and accuses her of lying with it. K2112.2.1