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Motifs
- Test of paternity. Child tested to see if it is child of certain father. H486
- Test of paternity: adhesion of blood. Blood of real son will adhere to dead father's bones. H486.1
- Test of paternity: shooting at father's corpse. Youngest of supposed sons refuses to shoot and is judged the only genuine son of dead emperor. H486.2
- Plea for a good father. Mother of twelve on deathbed explains to family that not all her children are legitimate. Gives the paternity of each child. Youngest leaves his food to say: "Please, mother, give me a good father!" (Cf. J325.) J1279.1
- Brother accused of paternity of mystically impregnated sister. K2121.1
- Man who doubts his children's paternity kills them. Murders wife and paramour. S11.3.1