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Motifs — first 20 of 43
- Brothers acquire extraordinary skill. Return home and are tested. F660.1
- Identity tested by account of common experiences. H15
- Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion. (Impostor fails.) H15.1
- Guilt or innocence of souls tested by bridge. H210.1
- Sanctity of person tested by survival in burning house. H221.1.2
- Sanctity of books tested by throwing them into fire. H221.1.3
- Legitimacy of children tested by dipping them in river. H222.1
- Sanctity of books tested by throwing them into water. H222.4
- Sham-dead person tested by hot lead poured on hand. H248.1
- Sham dead tested by stinging insects down back. H248.2
- Sham dead tested by pricking. H248.3
- Holiness of saint tested: asked to perform miracles. H257
- Grade of holiness tested: one whose candle burns down first. H257.1
- Suitor's sincerity tested. H314
- Suitor's sincerity tested by reporting girl's death. All but one make excuses for not helping with funeral. H314.1
- Suitor's sincerity tested by seven years' banishment. H314.2
- Bride test: thrifty cutting of cheese. Three girls tested. First eats rind and all, second cuts away good cheese, third cuts away just enough. H381.2
- Bride's constancy tested by seven year's mourning over supposed dead lover. H387.1
- Chastity tested by ordeal. H412
- Wife's faithfulness tested by proposal in another's name. H467.2