40 motifs match “detection”  ·  back to the chapters

• Transformation flight. Fugitives transforms themselves in order to escape detection by the pursuer. D671
• Fugitive transformed by helper to escape detection. D671.0.2
• Magic detection of crime. (Cf. D1318.) D1817
• Magic detection of theft. D1817.0.1
• Magic detection of poison. (Cf. D1317.0.1.) D1817.0.2
• Magic detection of murder. D1817.0.3
• Magic detection of conspiracy. D1817.0.4
• Magic detection of sin. D1817.0.5
• Detection of crime through "knowledge tooth". (Cf. D1810.3, D1811.1.1.) D1817.3
• Thief can eat from man's plate during dinner without detection. F676.1
• Thief can cut soles off man's boots without detection as he walks along road. F676.2
• Cleverness in detection of truth. J1140
• Detection of theft by finding bag-repairer. Two men are in a lawsuit and before witnesses seal the documents in a bag to await arrival of the king. One of the men cuts the bag open, changes the documents, and has a repairer sew it up again. On the king's arrival the change is discovered. By having a fine carpet repaired the expert repairer is discovered. Confession follows. J1141.5
• Detection through ruse. Husbands ask suspected priest to talk to wives on tithing, and thus obtain sufficient evidence to convict him. J1141.11
• Detection through aid of animal. J1145
• Detection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashes. J1146
• Detection by pitch-trap. Pitch is spread so that footprints are left in it, or that shoe is left behind as clue. J1146.1
• Detection through feigned dream. J1147
• Detection by disrobing in a dance. A man masking as a maiden has committed adultery with the queen. A clever girl by challenging him to disrobe in a dance exposes the imposture. J1149.3
• Detection of guilt by smile. Buried money is stolen from blind man. Latter has boy watch and notify him when passerby smiles at him. The smiler is the thief. J1149.5
• Trickster grooms master's old mule and then sells him back without detection at huge profit. K134.3
• Agreement not to scratch. In talking the trickster makes gestures and scratches without detection. K263
• Thief escapes detection. K400
• Stolen animal disguised as person so that thief may escape detection. K406
• Stolen sheep dressed as baby in cradle, so that thief may escape detection. (Mak.) K406.2
• Stolen animal magically transformed so that thief may escape detection. K406.3
• Severed limb prevents detection. K407
• Thief has his companion cut off his head so that he may escape detection. K407.1
• Companion's arm allowed to be cut off so as to prevent detection. Thief has had his arm cut off as he enters a hole in a wall. He lets his companion also enter and have his severed. K407.2
• Thief's confederate cuts off own arm to furnish alibi for family's grief. (Previously he had severed father's or brother's head to escape detection.) K407.2.1
• Detection of theft of bull escaped by putting boots on bull. K412
• Quartered thief's body sewed together to escape detection. K414
• Marked culprit marks everyone else and escapes detection. K415
• Thief swallows stolen goods to escape detection. K417
• Flower thief eats flowers to escape detection. K417.1
• Thief escapes detection – miscellaneous. K419
• Thief avoids detection by disguising as a woman. K419.2
• Thieves escape detection by carrying woman on bier and drowning her outcries with wailing. K419.8
• Detection of hypocrisy. K2060
• Detection by accidental remark. Wife misunderstands husband's remark and confesses. N275.3