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Motifs
- Confusion of tongues partly due to lack of understanding of difference between the word for "stick" and the word for "stone." A1333.1
- Reasons for difference in population sizes in different areas. A1621
- The various children of Eve. Eve has so many children that she is ashamed when God pays her a visit. She hides some of them and they fail to receive the blessing that God gives those in sight. Thus arises the differences in classes and peoples. A1650.1
- Enchanted person. See also the entire section on transformation. No real difference seems to exist between transformation and enchantment. A bewitched or enchanted person may, however, retain his original physical form, but may be affected mentally or morally. D5
- Counterquestion: "What is difference between you and an ass? What is difference between you and a cushion." H571.1
- Riddle: what is the difference between a poor man and a rich? (Riches.) H875
- Humble Brahmin teaches king the difference between "mine" and "thine." J179.1
- Differences in animal nature overlooked. J2211
- The fool and the visitor's large nose. The fool asks where he got the large nose. Is removed from the room. He comes back to mend matters. He says, "What a small nose you have!" He is again taken from the room. The third time: "What difference does it make whether you have a nose or not?" J2512
- King Lear judgment. A king flattered by his elder daughters and angered by the seeming indifference, though real love, of the youngest, banishes the youngest and favors the elder daughters. M21
- Wife puts out one of her eyes to show sympathy with her husband. He has lost an eye in a tournament and is ashamed to return to her. She shows that it makes no difference in her love. T215.4
- Indifference of the miserable. U150
- Security breeds indifference. U270
- The bird indifferent to pain. A man catches a mango-bird eating mangoes and strikes it against the roots of a mango-tree. The bird cannot be made to say it suffers from the blow. In turn, he puts it in water, strikes it on the ground, a stile, a door-frame, singes its feathers, cuts it up, cooks it, and eats it. The bird always expresses indifference in a cumulative rhyme. At last the bird asks him to look out of the window, whereupon it flies out of his nose and the man dies. Z49.3