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- Magic object detects poison. (Cf. D1317.4.) D1317.0.1
- Wizard detects thieves by placing leaf from Bible under doorstep. The guilty ones stumble over doorstep. D1817.0.1.5
- Wizard detects thief by trance. D1817.0.1.6
- Extraordinary gustatory sense. Woman detects flavor of garlic in a sauce made in a mortar from which garlic has been removed. F647.1.1
- Magic stone detects perjury: sheds water. H251.2.2
- Magic spring detects perjury: disfigures perjurer. H251.3.9
- Magic spring detects parricide and idolatry. H251.3.9.1
- 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
- Magistrate detects thief's complicity by associating cut hand with companion's severed head. J1149.8
- Thief tries to feed watchdog and stop his mouth: dog detects plan. K2062