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

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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

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Scholars’ trail — 6references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
Italian NovellaRotunda
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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