32 motifs match “innocence”  ·  back to the chapters

• Primeval human pair live in innocence. A1270.1
• Birds reveal innocence of suspect. B131.7
• Blood indicates guilt or innocence. (Cf. D1003.) D1318.5
• Blood drops from stone to indicate girl's innocence. D1318.5.5
• Dry branch on innocent man's grave blossoms as proof of innocence. E631.0.5.1
• Arm of monster kept as token of innocence of dog. Scottish: Campbell-McKay. H105.3
• Test of guilt or innocence. H210
• Guilt or innocence of souls tested by bridge. H210.1
• Magic manifestation at execution proves innocence. H215
• Grass refuses to grow: indication of innocence of man hanged there. (Cf. E631.2, F974.) H215.3
• Ineradicable handprint as indication of innocence. (Cf. D1654.3.) H215.4
• Indications of innocence. H216
• Voice from heaven testifies to innocence of accused. (Cf. F966.) H216.2
• Church door opens magically, as proof of priest's innocence. H216.3
• Trial by combat. Guilt or innocence established in judicial combat. H218
• Ordeals. Guilt or innocence thus established. H220
• Ordeal by fire. Suspected person must pass through or jump over fire to determine guilt or innocence. H221
• Ordeal by spitting. Extinguishing fire is proof of innocence. H221.5
• Ordeal by water. Guilt or innocence shown by ability to swim. H222
• Guilt or innocence shown by effect of enchanted water. H222.3
• Ordeal: taking stone out of bucket. Color indicates guilt or innocence. H233
• Incantation which when recited over certain "lots" causes them to distinguish between guilt and innocence. H245.1
• Stick with money in it breaks and betrays thief who swears his innocence. H251.3.4
• Act of truth: island sinks into sea, after hanging of man who has appealed to God to cause the phenomenon as indication of his innocence. (Cf. F948.) H252.5
• Test of innocence: apple and gold offered. Innocent person takes apple. H256
• Test of child's innocence: onyx stone and coal of fire offered. (Cf. H501.) H256.1
• Symbolical interpretation of fight between one-legged bird and twelve-legged bird. One-legged bird symbolizes innocence; twelve-legged bird, guilt. (Cf. B15.6.3.3.2.) H619.5
• The guilty protests his innocence. Animals put to graze in man's garden. Owner greets everyone with: "I know about you!" No one pays any attention to him except the guilty one who says: "I did not do it." Confesses. (Cf. N275.) J1141.9
• Man's torn garment as proof of his innocence of rape. If he were the assaulter, the torn garment would be woman's. J1174.5
• Irrevocable sentence carried out even when innocence is proved. A knight condemned for murdering his comrade is met by the latter on the way to the gallows. A centurion leads them to the emperor, who condemns all three to death: first because he has been sentenced; second for causing by his absence the conviction of his comrade; third for delay in the execution. M12
• Broken leg saves man from fatal fight. King has ordered that he be killed in a fight. He breaks his leg and cannot take part. Meantime the king learns of his innocence. N178.1
• Lightning strikes branch on which man is being hanged. Delay gives him chance to prove his innocence. (Cf. R175.) R341.1