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Motifs
- Invisibility of creator learned from the impossibility of staring at the sun, his servant. A11.1
- Lion sent to kill a man: frees him from possibility of sinning and sojourn in purgatory. J225.2
- Impossibility of pleasing everyone. One must act therefore without awaiting everyone's approval. J1041
- Humor concerning sex. [Note: Thousands of obscene motifs in which there is no point except the obscenity itself might logically come at this point, but they are entirely beyond the scope of the present work. They form a literature to themselves, with its own periodicals and collections. In view of the possibility that it might become desirable to classify these motifs and place them within the present index, space has been left from X700 to X749 for such motifs.] X700