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Motifs
- Wise man before entering a quarrel considers how it will end. J611
- Wise man considers whom he is attacking. J612
- One-eyed king has rocks counted on pain of death. Clever man avoids saying "one" (which king considers a curse on his one eye) by saying that first is the rock that must not be called by name. J1675.4
- Fish will climb trees like buffaloes. Numskull considers what will happen if river burns up. J1904.4.1
- The polluted fish. Servant places his one fish with Brahmin's entire catch; receives all since Brahmin considers all polluted. K344.1.1
- Escape by asking girl about to murder him if she will have to assume all the guilt. She reconsiders. K573.1
- The hare's last will. Surrounded by hunters and hounds, the hare considers to whom each of his members will be allotted. Succeeds in escaping. U242.1
- Monk refuses chance of having temptation removed since he considers it strengthening to have it ever present to test him. V462.12