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- Location of corpse of drowned person detected by magic. D1816.4.1
- Ghost detected. E436
- Ghost detected by strewing ashes. Their footprints remain in the ashes. E436.1
- Devil detected by his hoofs. While playing cards the devil drops a card on the floor and his partners notice his monstrous feet. G303.4.5.3.1
- Devil detected, goes up chimney in smoke. G303.17.2.1
- Substitution of low-caste boy for promised child detected when he prefers long road to short one through jungle (swimming instead of ferry, etc.) H38.2.5
- Severed finger as sign of crime. Robber bridegroom thus detected. H57.2.1
- Criminal detected by having child hand knife to him. H211
- Sham dead detected by batting eyes. H248.5
- Thief detected by psalter and key. Closed Bible with key inside at magic text loosely held by diviner and client. Name of suspected thief on end of key. As verse is spoken, if name is that of thief, book and key will turn around. H251.3.2
- 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
- Crow tries to prophesy like raven: detected by his voice. J951.3
- Weasel paints self to deceive mice. Detected. J951.4
- Lowly animal tries to move among his superiors. Detected. J952
- Jackal falls into dye vat, tries to pose as peacock: detected. J953.14
- "Thief has grease from stolen fowl on him": thief begins to feel his beard and is detected. J1141.1.2
- 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
- Love detected by quickening pulse. A woman's adulterous love detected through her pulse quickening at mention of her lover. J1142.2
- Guilt detected by quickening heartbeat. J1142.2.1
- Adultery detected by spit marks on the wall. Too high to have been made by husband. J1142.3