ATU 883A The Innocent Slandered Maiden

ATU 883A

The Innocent Slandered Maiden

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

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Compassionate executioner: substituted heart. A servant charged with killing the hero (heroine) substitutes an animal, whose heart he takes to his master as proof of the execution. 2 variants
Disguise of woman in man's clothes. (Cf. K1825.) 2 variants
Treacherous servant. 2 variants
Lowly heroine marries prince (king). 2 variants
Father condemns daughter to death because he believes her unchaste. 2 variants
Escape from undesired lover. 2 variants
Oft-proved fidelity. Repeated attempts to seduce innocent woman. She escapes them all. 2 variants
Calumniated wife. 1 variant
Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute). (Usually by unsuccessful suitor.) (Crescentia, Genoveva, Susanna.) 1 variant

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.