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

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

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 2 BOY DEEDS OF CUCHULAIN
Irish Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster , Ch. 6 THE HIGH KING OF IRELAND
Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 126 126.— FEEDINAND THE FAITHFUL.
Literary Crystallization Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 29
North American Indigenous Zuni Folk Tales , Tale 4

Cited in the index

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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