slanderer

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One fable is The Slanderer and the Snake.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the Slanderers declares that the drink has been changed because the Virgin was of the High Priest’s kindred, upon which the Slanderer is himself ordered to drink what is left in the cup.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall

Before we had gone far, the Rogue and the Slanderer appeared, chained between forty devils, and whispering to one another. 

From The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Davies, Robert Gwyneddon

The Huntress, the Swaggerer, the Rogue, on the one hand, and on the other, the Slanderer, the Lawmonger and the Busybody - a mixture would make devils reach.” 

From The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Davies, Robert Gwyneddon

“Bouncer, Coxcomb, and Contriver on the one side,” he added, “and on the other Slanderer, Pettifogger, and Meddler are a compound, enough to make a thousand devils sweat their bowels out.”

From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Borrow, George Henry