The constellation
H150 Circumstances of recognition
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● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
beneath it
- Attention drawn and recognition follows · H151 entry
- Recognition through accidental encounter · H152 entry
- Outcast wife (children) builds castle identical with king's, invites him, and is recognized · H153 entry
- Recognition of abandoned child when parent comes to him for relief from famine · H154 entry
- Abandoned queen invites all to forest, gives appropriate food to her persecutors, and is recognized · H155 entry
- King finds note with children in casket floated down river identifying them as his. (Cf. S141.) · H157 entry
- Recognition of transformed person among identical companions. Prearranged signals · H161 entry
- Recognition of disguised princess by bee lighting on her · H162 entry
- Recognition of own cow in herd of twenty thousand. Hornet helper · H163 entry
- Father recognizes son after having thrown him in oven · H165 entry
- Animal (object) indicates election of ruler · H171 entry
- Animal will serve only certain man · H172 entry
- Disguised man recognized by dog · H173 entry
- Recognition by "force of nature". Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized · H175 entry
- Recognition by unmasking · H181 entry
- Beating brings about outcry and recognition · H182 entry
- Identification by nurse. Long-missing person identified by his childhood nurse · H183 entry
- Recognition by miraculous sight of seer (saint) · H184 entry
- Hero spits twice at his wife as sign of recognition · H186 entry
- Recognition by servant: saves master from death · H187 entry
- Princess appears before crane (who had demanded her in marriage) and is recognized by him despite loathly disguise · H188 entry
- Recognition by supernatural manifestation · H192 entry