The constellation
J1171 Judgment by testing love
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The same sky, in words
filed under
- Clever judicial decisions · J1170 entry
beneath it
- Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses · J1171.1 entry
- Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discovered · J1171.2 entry
- The woman with two husbands is to be killed. One of the husbands refuses to bury her. She is awarded to the other · J1171.3 entry
- Which mare is mother of colt: colt taken in boat to the middle of river; mother will swim to it · J1171.4 entry
carried in tale type
- The Judge Appropriates the Object of Dispute · ATU 926D