Identification between lovers by matching claw and leg of dragon

Motif

Identification between lovers by matching claw and leg of dragon.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Identification by tokens. · Identification by matching parts of divided token. · view the constellation · filed as H105.6

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Parts of slain animals as token of slaying.

Filed beside it

Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer Tongue as proof that man has been murdered Arm of monster kept as token of innocence of dog. Scottish: Campbell-McKay Head of monster as token (proof) of slaying Ears, fingers and noses of demons cut off as proof of killing them Sex organs of enemy as proof of slaying

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Tokens between lovers. (Cf. H105.6.)

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