43 motifs match “tested”  ·  back to the chapters

• Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. F660.1
• Identity tested by account of common experiences. H15
• Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion. (Impostor fails.) H15.1
• Guilt or innocence of souls tested by bridge. H210.1
• Sanctity of person tested by survival in burning house. H221.1.2
• Sanctity of books tested by throwing them into fire. H221.1.3
• Legitimacy of children tested by dipping them in river. H222.1
• Sanctity of books tested by throwing them into water. H222.4
• Sham-dead person tested by hot lead poured on hand. H248.1
• Sham dead tested by stinging insects down back. H248.2
• Sham dead tested by pricking. H248.3
• Holiness of saint tested: asked to perform miracles. H257
• Grade of holiness tested: one whose candle burns down first. H257.1
• Suitor's sincerity tested. H314
• Suitor's sincerity tested by reporting girl's death. All but one make excuses for not helping with funeral. H314.1
• Suitor's sincerity tested by seven years' banishment. H314.2
• Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. H381.2
• Bride's constancy tested by seven year's mourning over supposed dead lover. H387.1
• Chastity tested by ordeal. H412
• Wife's faithfulness tested by proposal in another's name. H467.2
• Test of paternity. Child tested to see if it is child of certain father. H486
• Sons tested for skill. H500.1
• Sons tested for wisdom; given same amount of money. What will they do with it? H501.3
• Tasks imposed. A person's prowess is tested by assigning him certain tasks (usually impossible or extremely difficult) to be performed either to escape punishment or to receive a valuable reward. H900
• Suitor tested by apparent threats to his person. H1406
• Test: enduring hardship. Tested by making girl serve woman who has leprosy, etc. H1502
• Fidelity of servant tested. H1556.0.1
• Fidelity in love tested. H1556.4
• Lover's fidelity tested by going to bed with mistress and only kissing. H1556.4.1
• Lover's fidelity tested by making love to maid. H1556.4.2
• Lover's fidelity tested by substituting maid in mistress's bed at assignation. He must refuse her. H1556.4.3
• Obedience of sons tested by offering them apple. They are each offered a slice of apple. The king says, "Open your mouth and receive what I give you". Eldest son insulted; youngest obeys and receives kingdom as reward. (Cf. H1558.0.1.1.) H1557.1
• Obedience of king's subjects tested by willingness to allow spear to be carried crosswise into houses. Way must be hewn. H1557.5
• Belief in Christianity tested. (Cf. V300.) H1573.1
• Religious personages tested. H1573.2
• Saint tested by visit of deity in disguise. H1573.2.2
• Power of Christianity tested. H1573.3
• Power of other religions tested. H1573.4
• Power of Judaism tested. H1573.4.1
• Litter of puppies tested by throwing them one by one at hanging hide of wild beast, and keeping the one that grips hide. Puppy grows up to be great hunting dog. H1588.1
• Money tested by throwing it into a stream to see if it will swim. Good coins are supposed to swim, counterfeit to sink. J1931
• Two wicked men put to a fiery test ask for a third (pious) man to be tested together with them. K528.3
• Wife refuses to sleep with detested husband. T288