Motif
stolen infant and falsely condemned mother
stolen_infant_and_falsely_condemned_mother
A motif of the Jealous Stepmother and Persecuted Child family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm SECOND STORY / FIRST STORY / SECOND STORY / THIRD STORY; lines 11052-11132 confidence: high
While the queen sleeps with the child in the garden, the old cook steals him, hides him with a nurse, places hen’s blood on the queen’s clothes, and accuses her of letting wild beasts take the child.
The old cook steals the child, fabricates blood evidence, and the king imprisons the queen after believing the accusation.
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