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.)

Motif

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.)

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 J1154.1

Filed across the traditions

Spanish Exempla Keller
Italian Novella *Rotunda
India Thompson-Balys.
general *Chauvin VIII 35f. No. 3
general Bødker Exempler 286 No. 35

Within the index

Filed under Witness discredited by inability to tell details. (Cf. J1153.1.)

Filed beside it

Witnesses to make image of diamond they claim to have seen False witnesses cannot describe stolen jewel

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

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.)

Carried in tale types

Parrot Reports Wife's Adultery (previously Parrot Unable to Tell Husband Details of Wife's Infidelity) · ATU 1422 1 recorded variant

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