Sham dead tested by stinging insects down back

Motif

Sham dead tested by stinging insects down back.

Tests. · Tests of truth. · Other tests of truth. · view the constellation · filed as H248.2

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general Africa (Yaunde): Heepe 253ff. No. 31.

Within the index

Filed under Test of death: to see whether person is dead or feigning.

1 finer motif beneath it

Crocodile masking as dead obeys suggestion that he make flesh quiver

Filed beside it

Sham-dead person tested by hot lead poured on hand Sham dead tested by pricking Test of death by putting burning wood in the mouth of fallen warriors Sham dead detected by batting eyes

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