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Motifs — first 20 of 27
- Humble Brahmin teaches king the difference between "mine" and "thine." J179.1
- Minister's clever daughter-in-law uses wisdom to defeat Brahmin's wealth. J185.1
- Rich Brahmin wearing poor clothing is treated as a beggar. J1072.2
- Execution: man induced to kill self. King may not execute Brahmin, but gets him drunk and brings about his death. J1181.0.1
- Turning king into Brahmin like turning donkey into horse. J1293.3
- Stupid (ignorant) Brahmin. J1705.2
- The polluted clothes. A Brahmin washes clothes to purify them. As they hang to dry, a dog walks under them and the Brahmin fears that they are polluted. By putting himself on all-fours like a dog and fastening a leaf like a dog's tail he experiments and decides that the dog must have touched the clothes. He therefore destroys them instead of rewashing them. J2184
- Ascetic imitates Brahmin's practices. Brahmin goes to heaven, ascetic to hell. J2415.5
- The polluted fish. Servant places his one fish with Brahmin's entire catch; receives all since Brahmin considers all polluted. K344.1.1
- Embarrassing gift. Trickster unwilling to pay for burial fee of aged cow, gives cow to unwitting Brahmin as gift. Cow dies soon and Brahmin must pay. K499.5
- Fate takes form of Brahmin's pupil in order to lure him to his prophesied death. K1811.4.1
- Barber passes for a brahmin. K1827.0.2
- Brahmin takes shape of a prince. K1952.0.1
- Treacherous brahmin. K2284.2
- Accustomed rags preferred to new garments. A Brahmin returns home to find a palace instead of a cottage; he recognizes his wife only after she throws off her jewels and ornaments to stand before him in her old rags. L217
- Brahmin's curse. M411.14.3
- Wager about tree names: learned and common names. Brahmin gives learned names but servant's common names are confirmed by illiterate peasants. N51.1
- Brahmin unwittingly kills calf. N361.1
- A wise man (saint, brahmin) recognizes that a man unwittingly carries a venomous serpent in his proviant sack and warns him. N848.2
- Brahmin punished for killing animal. Q231