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.)

Motif

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.)

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 J1152

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Spanish ExemplaKeller.
general Chauvin II 93 No. 41
general Bødker Exempler 290 No. 44

Within the index

Filed under Cleverness connected with the giving of evidence.

Filed beside it

Testimony of witness cleverly discredited 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

Travels with

Parrot unable to tell husband details as to wife's infidelity. Wife has parrot describe a storm very realistically. Husband observes contrast in the two tales. (Cf. J1152.)"I don't understand." Foreigner asks who owns property, clothing, servants; whose wife an attractive woman is; whose funeral is in progress? Answer to each question is "I don't understand," which foreigner takes to be a person's name. (Cf. J1152, J1741, X111.7.)

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