Gallows rope breaks when innocent person is hanged

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Gallows rope breaks when innocent person is hanged.

Tests. · Tests of truth. · Tests of guilt or innocence. · Test of guilt or innocence. · view the constellation · filed as H215.2

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IrishO'Suilleabhain 44.

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Filed under Magic manifestation at execution proves innocence.

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Sword magically changed to wood when executioner is to decapitate innocent person Grass refuses to grow: indication of innocence of man hanged there. (Cf. E631.2, F974.)Ineradicable handprint as indication of innocence. (Cf. D1654.3.)

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