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Motif

"I surely saw a hundred wolves (snakes)." – "There weren't so many as that." – "Well, what made the noise in the bushes?"

Traits of character. · Traits of character – miscellaneous. · Traits of character – miscellaneous. · view the constellation · filed as W211.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1863*
  • Estonian Aarne FFC XXV No. 2009*
  • Russian Andrejev No. 2009
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general Type 2009*
Within the index

Filed under Active imagination.

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

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