The story’s sexual allegation

Meaning

The phrase appears in the narrative’s explanation of a punitive death attributed to the Scot. It is an early modern moral and sexual accusation voiced by the story, not a neutral description of a modern sexual identity, and not an independently verified charge. The surrounding catalogue of bad ends gives it a retributive narrative role. The translation’s distancing wording, “what the story calls,” is therefore important: the lexicon can explain the allegation and its function without endorsing either the accusation or the punishment.