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"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."

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Filed across the traditions
  • Lithuanian Balys Index No. 1862*.
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 surely saw a hundred wolves (snakes)." – "There weren't so many as that." – "Well, what made the noise in the bushes?"

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