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Motif

Series of clever unjust decisions: plaintiff voluntarily withdraws. (1) Man pulls off borrowed horse's tail: he shall keep horse till tail grows on. (2) Man falls out of bed and kills a baby (or causes a miscarriage): he shall beget a new baby for the mother. (3) Man falls from a bridge and kills boatsman's son: shall allow boatsman to fall from bridge and kill him.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever judicial decisions. · view the constellation · filed as J1173

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Boggs FFC XC 131 No. 1535A*
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Wesselski Hodscha Nasreddin II 234 No. 515
  • general *Köhler-Bolte II 578
  • general Penzer VI 83f.
  • general *Feilberg Danske Studier (1920) 2ff.
Within the index

Filed under Clever judicial decisions.

1 finer motif beneath it
Novel settlement of dispute. Judge orders woman's second husband to return her to the first in the same condition as he received her (with child)
Filed beside it
Series of wise judgments settles quarrels of village The Irish Solomon (Cormac mac Airt). Famed for his clever decisions Judgment by testing love Judgment as rebuke to unjust plaintiff Clever decisions concerning kissing and rape Judgments concerning arson Decisions based on experimental tests Story told to discover thief. Judge tells story of the lady, her husband, her lover, and the robbers (H1552.1). Which was the most generous? Witness says that robber was. This shows that he has robber's point of view Clever judicial decisions – miscellaneous
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