Test: telling true stories — Mythoi

Motif

Test: telling true stories.

Tests. · Tests of truth. · Other tests of truth. · view the constellation · filed as H252.0.1

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Act of truth. Person asserts a thing as true declaring: "If my words are true, may this or that happen."

Filed beside it

Placing hand on genitals as test of truth Amount of blood in spittle as test of complete subjection. Incomplete till all is blood If oath is false, fruit will fall. (Cf. H251.3.10.) Oath taken on boy's head: boy to die if false Act of truth: island sinks into sea, after hanging of man who has appealed to God to cause the phenomenon as indication of his innocence. (Cf. F948.) Act of truth: cursed church clock never runs correctly

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