Testimony of witness cleverly discredited

Motif

Testimony of witness cleverly discredited.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Cleverness connected with the giving of evidence. · view the constellation · filed as J1151

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Filed under Cleverness connected with the giving of evidence.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Testimony discredited by inducing witness to talk foolishly Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him Testimony gradually weakened. Witness agrees to the following facts in succession: that the person relating the facts may have been in anger, that he may have misunderstood, that he may not have heard it at all Testimony of unsuccessful suitor discredited. Adulteress is surprised in intrigue by unsuccessful suitor. He threatens to tell her husband. She tells her husband that the scorned suitor has accused her falsely of indiscretion with many men. When the suitor tells the husband he does not believe him

Filed beside it

Witness cannot speak language of accusation: discredited. Two parrots taught accusation of mistress in a particular dialect. They know nothing more of the language. (Cf. G1154.1.) Separate examination of witnesses discredits testimony Witness discredited by inability to tell details. (Cf. J1153.1.) "Then I woke up": man discredits his confession by declaring it all a dream Bribed witnesses nonplussed when judge asks wrong question Witness claims not to have seen crime

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