μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Detection through feigned dream.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Cleverness in detection of truth. · view the constellation · filed as J1147

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Filed under Cleverness in detection of truth.

1 finer motif beneath it
Husband relates his wife's adultery in pretended dream. She dies from fright
Filed beside it
Solomon able to detect truth without evidence of witnesses Confession obtained by a ruse Pseudo-scientific methods of detecting Thief detected by building straw fire so that smoke escapes through thief's entrance. The secret hole into the building is thus discovered and the thief caught Eaters of stolen food detected Detection through aid of animal Detection by strewing ashes (sand). Trespasser (lover, mistress, ghost, fairy, etc.) leaves footprints in the ashes Miscellaneous means of detecting

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