Motif
false accusation after rejected seduction
false_accusation_after_rejected_seduction
A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
2 traditions
native american northeast woodlands (1) · native american plains (1)
native american northeast woodlands
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Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths CDBTIN, / BXWITT. / BBWITTJ / CURTIN; lines 24446-24541 confidence: high
The young woman, angered by the youth's refusal to be seduced, goes into a thicket and lacerates her bare legs with briers and thorns.
The young woman is angered by the youth's refusal, wounds herself, and falsely reports an attempted assault by him.
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native american plains
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The Assiniboine I. ETHNOLOGY. / II. MYTHOLOGY. / O 7 O / ABSTRACTS OF MYTHS.; lines 13932-14025 confidence: high
Teze'xnin is wrongly accused by his older brother’s wife after she unsuccessfully tries to seduce him; the older brother chops down a tree he has climbed by a river, causing him to fall into water, but he escapes and becomes strong.
The Potiphar-labeled Teze'xnin variant explicitly states that an older brother’s wife tries to seduce him in vain and then wrongly accuses him.
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