ATU 712 Crescentia

ATU 712

Crescentia

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Other Tales Of The Supernatural · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Calumniated wife. 8 variants
Husband attracted by wife's power of healing: recognition follows. 6 variants
Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.) 6 variants
Outcast wife at last united with husband and children. 6 variants
Innocent woman accused of eating her new-born children. 4 variants

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.