The constellation
H252 Act of truth. Person asserts a thing as true declaring: "If my words are true, may this or that happen."
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filed under
- Other tests of truth · H240 entry
beneath it
- Test: telling true stories · H252.0.1 entry
- Placing hand on genitals as test of truth · H252.1 entry
- Amount of blood in spittle as test of complete subjection. Incomplete till all is blood · H252.2 entry
- If oath is false, fruit will fall. (Cf. H251.3.10.) · H252.3 entry
- Oath taken on boy's head: boy to die if false · H252.4 entry
- Act of truth: island sinks into sea, after hanging of man who has appealed to God to cause the phenomenon as indication of his innocence. (Cf. F948.) · H252.5 entry
- Act of truth: cursed church clock never runs correctly · H252.6 entry