Ordeal by burning coal

Motif

Ordeal by burning coal.

Tests. · Tests of truth. · Tests of guilt or innocence. · Ordeals. · view the constellation · filed as H221.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryPrimitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom, Chapter III

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

JewishNeuman.
general Basset RTP VII 284

Within the index

Filed under Ordeal by fire. Suspected person must pass through or jump over fire to determine guilt or innocence.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Ordeal: carrying live coals in robe or cloak without harm to garment or bearer Sanctity of person tested by survival in burning house Sanctity of books tested by throwing them into fire

Filed beside it

Ordeal by hot iron Ordeal by burning oil Ordeal by boiling water Ordeal by spitting. Extinguishing fire is proof of innocence

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