Bocca della Verità. Person swearing oath places hand in mouth of image. If oath is false the hand is bitten off — Mythoi

Motif

Bocca della Verità. Person swearing oath places hand in mouth of image. If oath is false the hand is bitten off.

Tests. · Tests of truth. · Other tests of truth. · view the constellation · filed as H251.1

Filed across the traditions

English Child I 269, 270 n., cf. Alphabet No. 418
Italian Novella *Rotunda.
general *Bolte Reise der Söhne Giaffers 216
general *Pauli (ed. Bolte) Nos. 8, 206
general *Krappe Nuovi Studi Medievali II fasc. I (1925)
general *Spargo Virgil the Necromancer 207ff.

Within the index

Filed under Test of truth by magic object.

1 finer motif beneath it

Oath of truth before magic lion. If oath is false perjurer is dismembered

Filed beside it

Stone of truth. When one stands on it he must utter truth Other magic object tests truth

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