Placing hand on genitals as test of truth

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Placing hand on genitals as test of truth.

Tests. · Tests of truth. · Other tests of truth. · view the constellation · filed as H252.1

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.

Irish mythCross.

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

Test: telling true stories 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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