Motif
Jealous female relatives falsify a birth report
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A motif of the Jealous Stepmother and Persecuted Child family, within the sub-family Newborn Theft and Falsified Births. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 11284-11406 confidence: high
The Talking Bird says the Sultan should not be surprised by pearls in a cucumber when he believed the Sultana produced a dog, cat, and log; it says the Sultana's jealous sisters invented the story and that the princes and princess are the Sultan's children, saved and raised by the intendant.
The Talking Bird says the Sultana's sisters, driven by jealousy, invented the story that the Sultana produced a dog, a cat, and a log of wood instead of children.
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