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La Bocca Della VeritLa Bocca della Verit (Italian: the Mouth of Truth) is a river god used to be a drain cover, but since the Middle ages, served as a lie detector. It was believed that if one told a lie with his or her hand in the mouth of this god, it would be bitten off. Of course it had to be helped sometimes by a servant with a blade. The Bocca was placed in the portico of the Santa Maria in Cosmedin church in Rome, Italy in the 17th century. The sculpture is thought to be part of a roman fountain or perhaps a "manhole" cover. See also Bocca della Verit, La
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