48 motifs match “ordeal”  ·  back to the chapters

• Why the guinea fowl has red feet. Cheated and could not stand the ordeal of hot oil poured on his feet. A2375.2.10
• Trial by ordeal subverted by carrying magic object. D1394.1
• Spear bends as it strikes hero on chest and he survives ordeal. F615.4
• 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 burning coal. H221.1
• Ordeal: carrying live coals in robe or cloak without harm to garment or bearer. H221.1.1
• Ordeal by hot iron. H221.2
• Ordeal: virgin to pull on hot iron and name men. Only with guilty will she and he be burnt. H221.2.1
• Ordeal by red-hot iron applied by druids. H221.2.2
• Ordeal by burning oil. H221.3
• Ordeal by boiling water. H221.4
• Ordeal by spitting. Extinguishing fire is proof of innocence. H221.5
• Ordeal by water. Guilt or innocence shown by ability to swim. H222
• Ordeal by water applied by druids. H222.0.1
• Ordeal by holy water. If simpleton closes his eyes to holy water he is possessed; if he laughs he is merely an idiot. H222.2
• Ordeal by poison. H223
• Ordeal by crocodiles (snakes). Judgment depends on whether person is devoured or rejected by crocodiles. H224
• Ordeal by kissing poisonous serpents. H224.1
• Ordeal by rope-walking. H225
• Ordeal: walking on ladder of knives. H225.1
• Ordeal: walking on eggs. H225.2
• Ordeal by balance. Defendant is weighed twice. He must be lighter second time. H226
• Ordeal: carrying murdered man's blood. Must not spill it. H227
• Ordeal by creeping under a sod partially detached from the earth without its falling down. H228
• Ordeal by bread and cheese. Declaration: if I am not innocent may I choke on bread and cheese. H232
• Ordeal: taking stone out of bucket. Color indicates guilt or innocence. H233
• Ordeal: names of suspected persons are placed in chalice on altar: the one to whom the lot falls is guilty. H233.1
• Ordeal: cock under pot crows when guilty person touches pot. H235
• Ordeal by exposure. (Cf. S141, S331.) H236
• Chastity test by magic objects or ordeals. H410
• Chastity tested by ordeal. H412
• Chastity ordeal: passing under magic rod. Unchaste woman bears twins. (Cf. D1254.2.) H412.1
• Chastity ordeal: holding shaven and greased tail of bull. H412.2
• Chastity ordeal: feather over door; if girl who enters blushes she is not a virgin. H412.3
• Chastity ordeal: passing through fire. H412.4
• Chastity ordeal: holding hot iron. H412.4.1
• Chastity ordeal: oath on boiling oil. H412.4.2
• Chastity ordeal: poisonous snake around girl's neck. H412.5
• Chastity ordeal: drawing lover out of wall with single thread rope. H412.6
• Chastity ordeal: jumping. H412.7
• Chastity ordeal: jumping over magic thread. H412.7.1
• Chastity ordeal: jumping over pit. H412.7.2
• The thief is tricked into betraying himself in supposed ordeal. J1141.16
• Unjust oath countered by another. A woman entrusts three coins to a headsman. He denies her claim which she fails to substantiate in ordeal. She now claims more and happens to succeed with ordeal. J1521.4
• Fasting the first month. Numskull having enough food to last him eleven out of the twelve months fasts the entire first month so as to get the ordeal over. He starves with eleven months' supply on hand. J2135.1
• Substitute in ordeal. An ordeal (usually dangerous) is escaped by deceptively providing a substitute. K528
• Trickster friar seduces woman under pretence of administering forgotten sacrament. When the woman objects, the husband who thinks the friar is engaging in a legitimate process, orders: "Bear the ordeal in peace." K1354.2.2