Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor.
Tests. · Marriage tests. · Father tests. · view the constellation · filed as H486.2
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- Italian Novella*Rotunda
- Jewishbin Gorion Born Judas II 123, 345, IV 102, 280, *Neuman.
- general *Herbert III 206
- general Oesterley No. 45
- general Scala Celi 98a No. 526
- general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 835
- general Nouvelles de Sens. No 29
- general Krappe Bulletin Hispanique XXXIX 28
- general L. Schmidt Oesterr. Zs. f. Vksk. 1955, 70 ff. Spanish Exempla: Keller
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Filed under Test of paternity. Child tested to see if it is child of certain father.
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- Shooting at the Father's Corpse as a Test of Paternity · ATU 920C1 recorded variant