Finally, the wife gave birth, cut off the baby's head, and blamed the sister.
His wife gave birth to a boy whose arms were gold to his elbows, with stars on his sides, the moon on his forehead, and the sun near his heart.
His grandparents wrote to their son, but the wicked sister-in-law had heard and invited the messenger to her house.
This grieved the merchant's son, but he wrote back that the baby was not to be molested until he returned.
Her brother tied his wife to the tail of a mare; it returned with only her braid, the rest strewn over the field.
[3] The mother falsely accused of giving birth to strange children is in common between tales of this type and that of Aarne-Thompson 707, where the woman has married the king because she has said she would give birth to marvelous children, as in The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, Princess Belle-Etoile, Ancilotto, King of Provino, The Wicked Sisters, and The Three Little Birds.
[4] A related theme appears in Aarne-Thompson type 710, where the heroine's children are stolen from her at birth, leading to the slander that she killed them, as in Mary's Child or The Lassie and Her Godmother.