The boy: "If I had one and then got two more, I should have three."

Motif

The boy: "If I had one and then got two more, I should have three."

Traits of character. · Traits of character – miscellaneous. · Traits of character – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as W211.1

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IrishCuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Ch. 2BOY DEEDS OF CUCHULAIN
IrishCuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Ch. 6THE HIGH KING OF IRELAND
GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 126126.— FEEDINAND THE FAITHFUL.
Literary CrystallizationMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 29
North American IndigenousZuni Folk Tales, Tale 4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Type 2411.

Within the index

Filed under Active imagination.

Filed beside it

"I surely saw a hundred wolves (snakes)." – "There weren't so many as that." – "Well, what made the noise in the bushes?""I am not alone!" Man travelling alone through the forest at night, is afraid of robbers. He hangs his cap on a stick and keeps repeating: "I am not travelling alone, there are two of us."

Carried in tale types

The Boy with Active Imagination · ATU 1348*1 recorded variant

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