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- Water-spirits work as servants for mortal but disappear when compensation is offered or origin suspected. F420.5.1.5
- Rakshasa eats horse, dog, and child. Suspected Ranis ordered for execution. G369.1.4
- Ordeal by fire. Suspected person must pass through or jump over fire to determine guilt or innocence. H221
- Ordeal: names of suspected persons are placed in chalice on altar: the one to whom the lot falls is guilty. H233.1
- 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
- Test of fidelity through offering suspected assassin opportunity to commit the murder. H1556.3
- Thief suspected of crawling through hole must take off clothes. He is full of scratches and confesses. J1141.7
- Detection through ruse. Husbands ask suspected priest to talk to wives on tithing, and thus obtain sufficient evidence to convict him. J1141.11
- Wife's attendants on trip chase wrong man as suspected lover and miss real lover. K1549.6
- Impostor acting as God in tree suspected and tree burned. K1971.12
- Rats cause cats to be killed. The rats unite and all go to houses together, increasing or decreasing their ravages with the increase or decrease in the number of cats. Thus the cats are suspected of the damage and are killed. K2172
- Murderer through miracle suspected of theft; murder thus discovered. N271.5
- Hasty condemnation of man who accidentally becomes suspected of crime. N342
- Innocent man accidentally suspected of crime. (Cf. N342.2.) N347
- "To every son belongs his mother": in case of suspected illegitimacy, child is not guilty. P526.2
- Suspected incontinence unjustly punished. Q243.0.2