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Motifs
- Tabu: trespassing sacred precinct. C93
- Trespass betrayed by dripping candle. (Cf. C31.1, C32.1.) C916.1
- Fairies take revenge on trespassers on ground they claim as theirs. F361.4
- Water-spirits take revenge for trespassing on ground they claim as theirs. F420.5.2.6.2
- Detection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashes. J1146
- Trespasser's defense: standing on his own land. Man has earth from his own land in his shoes. J1161.3
- Small trespasses punished; large crimes condoned. U11