Motif
Truth-telling animal witness deceived by staged illusion
truth_telling_animal_witness_deceived_by_staged_illusion
A motif of the Trickster and Boundary Crosser family, within the sub-family Staged Deceptions and Feigned Conditions. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamicate folklore
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments The Arabian Nights Entertainments; lines 931-1034 confidence: high
In the story of the husband and the parrot, a husband buys a speaking parrot that can report what has happened before it, leaves it with his wife, and on return hears reports that cause him to scold her; the wife learns the parrot is the informant and seeks revenge.
The parrot truthfully reports what it experiences, but the wife’s staged storm makes its report seem false to the husband.
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