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Motifs — first 20 of 30
- Cat from transformed eagle. Eagle mistakes stick of wood for fish and gets feet caught. Wind blows off feathers and makes hair. (Cf. A1710.) A1811.1
- Man mistakes giant's glove for house. F531.5.2
- Heads placed on stakes for failure in performance of task. Unsuccessful youths are beheaded and heads exposed. Hero sees them when he sets out to accomplish his task. H901.1
- The account-book of mistakes. A king, hearing that a man keeps an account-book of people's mistakes asks to see about his own record. He reads that the king has made a mistake in trusting a certain sum of money to a servant. King: "How if he comes back with it?" "I shall cross off your name and put him down for making a mistake." J1371
- Thief mistakes leopard for calf (ass). J1758.4
- Stupid husband mistakes tiger-cubs for jungle cats despite wife's judgment. J1758.6
- Hunter mistakes louse on his eyelash for game. He shoots several times before he notices the trouble. J1759.2
- Man mistakes dragon for log, sits on it. (Cf. B11.) J1761.8
- Fool mistakes dung-beetles for fruit: eats them. J1761.11
- Dog mistakes mussel for an egg. Cuts his mouth. J1772.2
- Cat mistaken for devil. Fool in the dark mistakes cat's eyes for embers. Is attacked by the cat and he thinks it is the devil. J1785.5
- Numskull stays till he has finished. As he is making water he hears a brook flowing and mistakes what it is. He waits for a day and a half. J1814
- Substitute for the corpse. Fool loses his mother's corpse on way to funeral. Mistakes old woman for mother and substitutes her. J1959.2
- Fool admits crime but pleads mistakes in the details of the accusation. J2499.3
- To draw out fence stakes and throw them down. Boy throws them into river. J2516.8
- Unjust umpire keeps the stakes when contest cannot be decided. K452.2
- Ape tricked into jumping on to stakes and killing himself. K891.2
- Woman mistakes passer-by for lover. Substitution in the dark. K1317.7
- Blind fiancée betrays self. Mistakes one object for another. K1984.5
- Person allowed to win first game so that he will play for higher stakes. K2378.1