Related%20passage for Yevamot 15:9

נִתַּן לִי בֵן בִּמְדִינַת הַיָּם, וְאָמְרָה מֵת בְּנִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת בַּעְלִי, נֶאֱמֶנֶת. מֵת בַּעְלִי וְאַחַר כָּךְ מֵת בְּנִי, אֵינָהּ נֶאֱמֶנֶת, וְחוֹשְׁשִׁים לִדְבָרֶיהָ, וְחוֹלֶצֶת וְלֹא מִתְיַבֶּמֶת:

(If she said:) A son was given (i.e., born) to me abroad, and my son died and then my husband died, [not releasing herself from her original status, still requiring yibum according to her words], she is believed [and she is permitted to be taken in yibum. (If she said:) My husband died and then: My son died, she is not believed [to marry "in the marketplace" without chalitzah; for when the sages believed a woman, it is only in relation to her husband that they believed her, assuming that she would remarry only after making certain (that he had died): but they did not believe her relative to releasing herself from yibum, in that she might possibly be motivated by hatred (for the yavam).] And we are apprehensive of her words [i.e., that they are designed to free her from yibum], and she receives chalitzah and is not taken in yibum.

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