The constellation
H103 Pieces taken from flags serve to identify
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
filed beside
- Identification by broken weapon. Point of weapon broken off. Later found to match rest of weapon · H101 entry
- Identification by indenture. Each of two persons keeps his half of a contract which has been torn in two. Fitting of the halves brings about recognition · H102 entry
- Parts of slain animals as token of slaying · H105 entry
- Identification by severed limbs. (Cf. also H105.) · H106 entry