Thief's corpse carried through street to see who will weep for him

Motif

Thief's corpse carried through street to see who will weep for him.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Cleverness in detection of truth. · view the constellation · filed as J1142.4

Cited in the index

general *Type 950
general *BP III 395ff.

Within the index

Filed under Pseudo-scientific methods of detecting.

1 finer motif beneath it

Mother's weeping for thief made to seem natural

Filed beside it

Test of mother by weighing milk. The one with the heavier milk the mother of the boy; the other of the girl Love detected by quickening pulse. A woman's adulterous love detected through her pulse quickening at mention of her lover Adultery detected by spit marks on the wall. Too high to have been made by husband

Carried in tale types

Rhampsinitus · ATU 950 1 recorded variant

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