"When the crewmen finally made it home again and told of Breakan's fate, one of the young Norwegian ladies was consumed with guilt, as she was not as pure as she had made out - it had been her hair which weakened the rope"

Eve
Pandora
Guinevere
Nurse Cratched
and now this

Another plot uses a hackneyed trick - stick in a woman (preferably in a minor part) and make it all her fault.