Criminal confesses because of misunderstood animal cries — Mythoi

Motif

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

Cited in the index

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

Within the index

Filed under Criminal confesses because he thinks himself accused.

Filed beside it

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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