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- Intermediate future world. Residence for those whose good and evil deeds exactly counterbalance. A693
- Ordeal by balance. Defendant is weighed twice. He must be lighter second time. H226
- 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
- Unsuccessful fishermen console themselves that their earlier high hopes balance up their disappointment. J866.1
- Man puts bag of meal on one side of saddle, balances it on the other side with a rock. J1874.2
- Why everyone doesn't live in the same place. The earth would become unbalanced. J2274.1
- Fortune with pair of scales in his hands weighs man's balance. N111.3.2
- Religious exercises weighed in balance. A son doubts whether the words spoken by the priests to whom his father has willed a sum of money is worth so much. The words are put on paper and are found to outweigh the money. V4.1
- Confessor and penitent exchange confidences. Balance sins and cancel wrongs. V29.7
- His faith into the balance. A clerk sees his good and evil deeds being weighed. He asks them to throw his faith in Christ (the Virgin) into the scale. He is saved. V512.1
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