As a child I heard this fable about a demon seeing a man blow on his hands ("To warm them up") and blow on his soup ("To cool it down") is convinced the human is a monster, being able to blow hot and cold.
It's supposedly about making bad judgements on incomplete information, but I always wondered why an intelligent creature doesn't understand relative temperatures.
But then later I realised that it's a demon. Hell only has one temperature level (warmish), so it works.
Then much later I found out it's a satyr, so I clearly didn't learn the lesson.
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