misaccount

to account badly, wrongfully, or in error

[…] having transpired in the village previous to the still more remarkable event which had struck dismay into the hearts of young and old, the journey was instantly attributed by those idle talkers who love nothing better than to misaccount for the movements and motives of their neighbours, […]

A bad or wrong account; an incorrect narrative.

Oakley shows how a misaccount arises from “masculine ambivalence" about birth, which obstructs women from producing new accounts.