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Motifs
- Herd of magic swine that cannot be counted twice with the same result. B184.3.0.5
- Gifts of the fairies must never be measured or counted. F348.6
- Stones cannot be counted. F809.1
- The years not counted. Man says that he is the youngest present, for he does not count the years before he became monk (or the like). J181
- 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
- Monkey in danger on bridge of crocodiles pretends that the king has ordered them counted. K579.2
- King tells jackal his statistics are wrong since there are more men than women. Jackal: husbands ruled by their wives counted as women. T252.2.2.1