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Motifs
- Man created after series of unsuccessful experiments. A1226
- 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
- How blind men get about. Fool experiments with shut eyes and gets lost. J2387