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Motifs
- Magic axe cuts thousands of trees at a single blow. D1601.14.1
- Strong man bathing and diving in river catches thousands of fishes in his beard. (Cf. X1112.) F634.1
- Man asked to kill thousands, press hundreds beneath his arm, etc. (To shave his head, put some hairs under his arm, etc.) H599.4
- 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