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Motifs — first 20 of 30
- Hawk lighting on man points out criminal. B152.3
- Hand-of-glory. Magic candle made of criminal's hand. D1162.2.1
- Criminals buried at crossroads to prevent walking. (Cf. E434.4.) E431.17
- Criminal detected by having child hand knife to him. H211
- Thief's money scales borrowed. A man buries gold and a thief steals it. The owner detects the criminal. He takes some money to the thief and borrows money scales "to weigh so as to bury with the other". The thief decides that he is detected and hastens to return the stolen money. J1141.6
- Will lunch with Christ. Priest tells condemned man after confession that he will dine with Christ that evening. Mule that carries him to scaffold goes very fast and criminal says, "At this rate I shall lunch with Christ." J1261.3
- If his head is taken off other punishments do not matter. Judge shows criminal mercy: he will not punish him as he deserves, only take off his head. J1293.2
- Prophecy: criminal going to death predicts that his judge (king, prince) shall soon meet him. M341.4
- Criminal confesses because he thinks himself accused. N275
- Criminal confesses because of misunderstood animal cries. N275.1
- Criminal confesses because of misunderstanding of a dialect. N275.2
- Criminal in church mistakes words of service as accusation. (Cf. Type 1833.) N275.5
- Supernatural voice points out criminal. N278
- Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first." N611
- Criminal accidentally detected: "that is the first" – sham wise man. The sham wise man employed to detect theft is feasted. As the servants enter with food he remarks to his wife, "That is the first" (course). (Or allowed to feast for three days remarks at end of first day "That is the first.") The servants, thinking they are detected, confess. N611.1
- Name of criminal accidentally spoken out (identical with ordinary word in speech). N611.1.1
- Criminal accidentally detected: "That is the first" – sleepy woman counting her yawns. Robber hearing her flees. (Cf. N612.) N611.2
- Criminal allowed to choose his method of execution. P511
- Chooses to die of old age. Criminal given choice of deaths. (Cf. J1181.) P511.1
- Criminal may fight against odds rather than be judicially executed. P513