Active imagination — Mythoi

Motif

Active imagination.

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3 finer motifs beneath 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?" "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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Eagerness for combat Man will not allow food served to strangers until a man of them wrestles with him Man will not do a woman's bidding Extreme prudence Thrift Taciturn man Moving home simple for poor man. Man is so poor that when he moves all he has to do is to put out the fire and whistle for the dog to follow him

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