The constellation
J1145 Detection through aid of animal
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
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● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
beneath it
filed beside
- Solomon able to detect truth without evidence of witnesses · J1140.1 entry
- Confession obtained by a ruse · J1141 entry
- Pseudo-scientific methods of detecting · J1142 entry
- Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught · J1143 entry
- Eaters of stolen food detected · J1144 entry
- Detection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashes · J1146 entry
- Detection through feigned dream · J1147 entry
- Miscellaneous means of detecting · J1149 entry