μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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.

  • general *Penzer Poison-Damsels 75ff.
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Filed under Cleverness in detection of truth.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Test of mother by weighing milk. The one with the heavier milk the mother of the boy; the other of the girlLove detected by quickening pulse. A woman's adulterous love detected through her pulse quickening at mention of her loverAdultery detected by spit marks on the wall. Too high to have been made by husbandThief's corpse carried through street to see who will weep for him
Filed beside it
Solomon able to detect truth without evidence of witnessesConfession obtained by a ruseThief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caughtEaters of stolen food detectedDetection through aid of animalDetection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashesDetection through feigned dreamMiscellaneous means of detecting

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