Detection by pitch-trap. Pitch is spread so that footprints are left in it, or that shoe is left behind as clue

Motif

Detection by pitch-trap. Pitch is spread so that footprints are left in it, or that shoe is left behind as clue.

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 J1146.1

Cited in the index

general *Type 510
general Cox 1–80, 87–104 passim.

Within the index

Filed under Detection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashes.

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