54 motifs match “detected”  ·  back to the chapters

• Location of corpse of drowned person detected by magic. D1816.4.1
• Ghost detected. E436
• Ghost detected by strewing ashes. Their footprints remain in the ashes. E436.1
• Devil detected by his hoofs. While playing cards the devil drops a card on the floor and his partners notice his monstrous feet. G303.4.5.3.1
• Devil detected, goes up chimney in smoke. G303.17.2.1
• Substitution of low-caste boy for promised child detected when he prefers long road to short one through jungle (swimming instead of ferry, etc.) H38.2.5
• Severed finger as sign of crime. Robber bridegroom thus detected. H57.2.1
• Criminal detected by having child hand knife to him. H211
• Sham dead detected by batting eyes. H248.5
• Thief detected by psalter and key. Closed Bible with key inside at magic text loosely held by diviner and client. Name of suspected thief on end of key. As verse is spoken, if name is that of thief, book and key will turn around. H251.3.2
• Thief detected by sieve and shears. Sieve put on open shears and then grasped by two fingers so as to balance. Charm recited. If sieve trembles when name is called, that person is guilty. H251.3.3
• Crow tries to prophesy like raven: detected by his voice. J951.3
• Weasel paints self to deceive mice. Detected. J951.4
• Lowly animal tries to move among his superiors. Detected. J952
• Jackal falls into dye vat, tries to pose as peacock: detected. J953.14
• "Thief has grease from stolen fowl on him": thief begins to feel his beard and is detected. J1141.1.2
• Thief's money scales borrowed. A man buries gold and a thief steals it. The owner detects the criminal. He takes some money to the thief and borrows money scales "to weigh so as to bury with the other". The thief decides that he is detected and hastens to return the stolen money. J1141.6
• Love detected by quickening pulse. A woman's adulterous love detected through her pulse quickening at mention of her lover. J1142.2
• Guilt detected by quickening heartbeat. J1142.2.1
• Adultery detected by spit marks on the wall. Too high to have been made by husband. J1142.3
• Thief 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 caught. J1143
• Eaters of stolen food detected. J1144
• Eaters of stolen food detected by the giving of an emetic. J1144.1
• Animal thief of eggs detected when he comes to a spring to drink. All animals must tell why they are thirsty. J1144.2
• Murderer detected by actions of murdered man's dog. Attacks murderer whenever possible. J1145.1
• Thief detected by his answer to question. "How would you treat a woman who came into your possession?" Answer: "I would use her and then give her to the servants." This reveals his true character. J1149.6
• Thief posing as corpse detected by pricking soles of his feet. J1149.7
• Truth detected by spies listening to reactions of defendants at night. J1149.10
• Measuring the dregs. Some full and some half-full wine casks left with man by neighbor, who accuses him of theft. Fraud of accusation detected by measuring the dregs. J1176.2
• Clever deduction of wise man: the theft of a cauldron detected. Cauldron has been buried in river. Thief has no taste of salt on his body: he must have been immersed in fresh water recently. J1661.1.10
• Diving match won by deception: breathing under brush. Trickster comes up and breathes under some floating brush, where he is not detected. K16.1
• Contest: who will eat least. Food secretly furnished one, but plan detected and foiled. K81.4
• Order to put a small vessel of milk into huge container. Shrewd group each by himself pours water thinking this will not be detected if the others pour milk. K231.6.1.1
• Thief loses his goods or is detected. K420
• Thief loses his goods or is detected – miscellaneous. K439
• Thief claims that stolen goods are his own: detected by master. K439.2
• Adulteress detected: husband secretly drops dye on her dress. K1550.1.1
• Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. K1550.1.2
• Adulteress detected by food she prepares for paramour. K1550.3
• False bride's mutilated feet. In order to wear the shoes with which the husband is testing the identity of his bride, the false bride cuts her feet. She is detected. K1911.3.3.1
• Treacherous plan of hypocritical animal detected and prevented. K2061
• Wolf offers to act as shepherd: plan detected. K2061.1
• Wolf proposes abolition of dog guards for sheep: plan detected. K2061.1.1
• Wolf tries to entice goat down from high place: plan detected. K2061.4
• Famished wolf asks sheep to bring him water: plan detected. K2061.5
• Wolf offers to act as midwife for sow: plan detected. K2061.6
• Cat offers to act as doctor for cock and hen: plan detected. K2061.7
• Crocodile tells dog to drink in river without fear: plan detected. K2061.8
• Fox's plan detected by crickets: cricket wings in his excrement. K2061.10
• Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first." N611
• Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first" – sham wise man. The sham wise man employed to detect theft is feasted. As the servants enter with food he remarks to his wife, "That is the first" (course). (Or allowed to feast for three days remarks at end of first day "That is the first.") The servants, thinking they are detected, confess. N611.1
• Criminal accidentally detected: "That is the first" – sleepy woman counting her yawns. Robber hearing her flees. (Cf. N612.) N611.2
• Numskull bridegroom unwittingly sings out phrases that thieves mistake to mean he has detected them. N611.3
• Thief hears owner of house singing "Bore and throw out the earth" and thinks himself detected. Offers owner money to purchase his silence. N611.4