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Motifs — first 20 of 40
- Why women are disqualified as witness in court. A1589.1
- Disenchantment as proof of truth. The prodigy convinces judge that witness is speaking truth. D797
- Ghostly chair in cellar jumps up and down on three legs, points with fourth at spot on floor. Witnesses dig up body from under floor. E539.4.1
- Heavenly bodies bear witness for and against man. F961.0.5
- Flail substantiates story of witnessing threshing in heaven. H84.3
- Solomon able to detect truth without evidence of witnesses. J1140.1
- Stone as witness. Farmer will not pay servant wages due. Closing his bargain with the servant he had said: "May this stone be witness." Judge orders stone brought to court. The farmer: "Oh, but the stone is too big (or very far away)". J1141.1.3.1
- Detection of theft by finding bag-repairer. Two men are in a lawsuit and before witnesses seal the documents in a bag to await arrival of the king. One of the men cuts the bag open, changes the documents, and has a repairer sew it up again. On the king's arrival the change is discovered. By having a fine carpet repaired the expert repairer is discovered. Confession follows. J1141.5
- Witness always to answer "No." Thus gets self condemned. J1141.13
- Testimony of witness cleverly discredited. J1151
- Testimony discredited by inducing witness to talk foolishly. J1151.1
- Witness claims the borrowed coat: discredited. Trickster summoned to court on Jew's complaint refuses to go unless he has a new coat: Jew lends him his. In court the trickster says that the Jew is a liar: "He will even claim that I am wearing his coat." The Jew does so and no one believes him. J1151.2
- 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
- Witness cannot speak language of accusation: discredited. Two parrots taught accusation of mistress in a particular dialect. They know nothing more of the language. (Cf. G1154.1.) J1152
- Separate examination of witnesses discredits testimony. J1153
- Susanna and the elders: separate examination of witnesses. Testimony as to exact circumstances of her deed does not agree. Witnesses discredited. J1153.1
- Witness discredited by inability to tell details. (Cf. J1153.1.) J1154
- Witnesses to make image of diamond they claim to have seen. J1154.2
- False witnesses cannot describe stolen jewel. J1154.3
- Bribed witnesses nonplussed when judge asks wrong question. J1157