Calumniated Wife
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The Calumniated Wife is a motif in traditional narratives, numbered K2110.1 in Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. It entails a wife being falsely accused of, and often punished for, some
The king finds a mysterious maiden in the woods. Illustration for Mary's Child.
The discovery of the abandoned children
The Virgin Mary halts the queen's execution by bringing the maiden's children.
The Three Golden Children refers to a series of folktales related to the motif of the calumniated wife, numbered K2110.1 in the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. The name refers to a cycle of tales wher
Calumniated Wife
…combination in the Hungarian tale corpus. The Girl Without Hands Penta of the Chopped-off Hands The One-Handed Girl The Armless Maiden ATU 707: The Three Golden Children The discovery of the abandoned children Ethnologist Verrier Elwin commented that the motif of jealous queens, instead of jealous sisters, is present…
The Emperor overhears the conversation of the three sisters. Frontispiece from Andrew Lang's Violet Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1906).
Princess Parizade restores the petrified men to life with the Golden Water. Illustration by Adolphe Lalauze (1881).