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False dragon-head proof. Impostor cuts off dragon heads (after tongues have been removed) and attempts to use them as proof of slaying the dragon.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Identification by tokens. · Identification by matching parts of divided token. · view the constellation · filed as H105.1.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Missouri French Carrière
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys.
  • general *Type 300
  • general *BP I 534ff. and all references to H105.1
  • general *Parsons FL XXXII 194ff.
Within the index

Filed under Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer.

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