μῦθοι Mythoi
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

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • IndiaThompson-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 seenFalse witnesses cannot describe stolen jewel
Travels with
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

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