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Motifs
- Testing of witches. G277
- Truth-testing vessel. H251.3.12
- Judgment by testing love. J1171
- Testing the evidence by experiment: biting the ear off. The accused pleads that the plaintiff bit his own ear off. The judge takes time for consideration, tries to bite his own ear, but falls down and breaks his head. J2376
- Husband beaten by paramour. Husband, dressed in wife's clothing, is beaten by forewarned paramour. The latter says that he is testing the wife's fidelity to her husband. K1514.4.1
- Paramour in vat: disguise as vat-buyer. Husband thinks he is testing the vat. K1517.3
- Wife confesses to disguised husband. She suspects the fraud and persuades him that she knew the ruse and was testing him. He begs forgiveness. K1528
- False bride's mutilated feet. In order to wear the shoes with which the husband is testing the identity of his bride, the false bride cuts her feet. She is detected. K1911.3.3.1
- Princess promises to embrace her teacher on her wedding day. Teacher has only been testing her promise. M261.2
- Flaying alive as punishment for contesting with a god. Q457.1
- Exposure given up on account of newborn son's protesting stanza. S341.1
- Rivals contesting for the same girl. T92.11
- Mother guilty of incest with son whose honor she is testing. T412.3
- Testing the authenticity of relics: bones are cast into fire; with great noise they jump away from the flames. V140.4
- Jews protesting against marriage of Jewess and Christian are struck dumb. V343