μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

False witnesses cannot describe stolen jewel.

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 J1154.3

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  • India Thompson-Balys.
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Filed under Witness discredited by inability to tell details. (Cf. J1153.1.)

Filed beside it
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.) Witnesses to make image of diamond they claim to have seen

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