Unchaste woman dips arm into the water: skin boiled away

Motif

Unchaste woman dips arm into the water: skin boiled away.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Chasity tests. · Chastity test by magic objects or ordeals. · view the constellation · filed as H411.11.1

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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general *Loomis White Magic 126.

Within the index

Filed under Magic spring as chastity test. Wells up if girl is not a virgin. (Cf. D927.)

Filed beside it

Fountains as chastity tests. One fountain of clear water, other muddy

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