Criminal confesses because of misunderstood animal cries

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Criminal confesses because of misunderstood animal cries.

Chance and fate. · The ways of luck and fate. · Crime inevitably comes to light. · view the constellation · filed as N275.1

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general BP II 534, 412
general Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 66.

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Filed under Criminal confesses because he thinks himself accused.

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Criminal confesses because of misunderstanding of a dialect Detection by accidental remark. Wife misunderstands husband's remark and confesses Thief imagines that group of people in street are talking and laughing at him; he confesses Criminal in church mistakes words of service as accusation. (Cf. Type 1833.)

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