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Motifs
- Souls weighed at Judgment Day. (Cf. Q155.1.) E751.1
- Ordeal by balance. Defendant is weighed twice. He must be lighter second time. H226
- The stolen meat and the weighed cat. A man buys three pounds of meat. His wife eats it and says that the cat ate it. The man weighs the cat and finds that it does not weigh three pounds. J1611
- Butter weighed with the bread. The peasant weighs the butter which he is selling to the baker along with the bread which he is buying. K478
- Religious exercises weighed in balance. A son doubts whether the words spoken by the priests to whom his father has willed a sum of money is worth so much. The words are put on paper and are found to outweigh the money. V4.1
- His faith into the balance. A clerk sees his good and evil deeds being weighed. He asks them to throw his faith in Christ (the Virgin) into the scale. He is saved. V512.1
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