A man who loved his beautiful wife dearly was forced to leave her on important business. Before departing, he bought a remarkable parrot that could recount everything it witnessed. He placed it in his wife's room and asked her to care for it.
Upon his return, the parrot reported events that angered the husband, leading him to scold his wife. She discovered the parrot was the informant and plotted revenge.
The next time the husband left, she instructed her slaves to create a disturbance around the parrot's cage all night: one turned a hand-mill beneath it, another poured water from above, and a third flashed a mirror by candlelight before its eyes.
When the husband returned and asked for a report, the exhausted parrot said, "Good master, I suffered all night from lightning, thunder, and rain." Knowing the weather had been calm, the husband, convinced the bird was lying, threw it to the ground in a rage, killing it. He later regretted his haste when he learned the truth.