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Solomon's judgment: the divided child. Two women claim a child. Judge offers to cut it in two. Real mother refuses.

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Scholars’ trail — 12references

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  • Spanish ExemplaKeller
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • N. Am. Indian (Menomini)Skinner and Satterlee PaAM XIII 397
  • Cape Verde IslandsParsons MAFLS XV (1) 348 n. 1
  • West IndiesFlowers 479. Cf. Cook Group: Dixon 37 (child actually cut in two to settle dispute).
  • general *Frazer Old Testament II 570
  • general *Goebel Jüdische Motive im Märchenhaften Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 21ff.
  • general *Gaidoz Mélusine IV 313, 337, 366, 385, 414, 446, 457
  • general *Köhler-Bolte I 531
  • general *Chauvin VI 63 No. 231. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s. v. "partage"
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Filed under Judgment by testing love.

1 finer motif beneath it
The ring to be cut in two and divided between quarreling persons: real owner laments the waste of the gold
Filed beside it
Solomon's judgment: the divided bride. Three suitors dispute over a woman. When it is proposed to divide her, true lover is discoveredThe woman with two husbands is to be killed. One of the husbands refuses to bury her. She is awarded to the otherWhich mare is mother of colt: colt taken in boat to the middle of river; mother will swim to it
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