Jusjurandum
The Oath
A husband returns from a business trip to discover evidence (in some version, body fluids) indicating that his wife has committed adultery. When her denials prove futile, she offers to swear a holy oath affirming her fidelity, and her husnband agrees to this. Secretly, she arranges with her lover that he should encounter them in the market on their way to the holy temple, and drop a clay pot just as they pass. When he does so, the wife trips over the broken pot, and her lover catches her in his arms, and sets her on her feet. When the husband and wife arrive at the temple, the wife swears on all that is holy that she has touched no man but her husband - except of course for the man who caught her as she fell in the marketplace. The husband is convinced of her honesty.
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