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
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 6references
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.
- EnglishChild 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.