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Motifs — first 20 of 22
- Testimony gradually weakened. Witness agrees to the following facts in succession: that the person relating the facts may have been in anger, that he may have misunderstood, that he may not have heard it at all. J1151.3
- Learned words misunderstood by uneducated. J1803
- Doctor's expressions misunderstood. J1803.2
- Conversation by sign language mutually misunderstood. J1804
- Unusual word misunderstood. Strange results. J1805.2
- Physical phenomena misunderstood. J1810
- Animal cries misunderstood. J1811
- Owl's hoot misunderstood by lost simpleton. J1811.1
- Frog's cries misunderstood. J1811.2
- Turkey's gobble misunderstood by man lost in woods. J1811.3
- Other sounds misunderstood. J1812
- Noises fire is making misunderstood. Hunchback springs into it to burn to his death. J1812.4.1
- Snoring sounds misunderstood. (Cf. J1833.) J1812.5
- Cooking processes misunderstood. J1813
- Animal's action misunderstood. J1818
- Physical phenomena misunderstood – miscellaneous. J1819
- Nature of a baby misunderstood. J1911
- Disastrous following of misunderstood instructions. (To burn land, then sow seed. Opposite done.) J2460.1
- Criminal confesses because of misunderstood animal cries. N275.1
- Misunderstood message causes messenger to be killed (accused). N341
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