Identification by severed hand

Motif

Identification by severed hand.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Identification by tokens. · Identification by matching parts of divided token. · view the constellation · filed as H106.1

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Identification by severed limbs. (Cf. also H105.)

Filed beside it

Severed head as proof of killing

Carried in tale types

The King and the Farmer's Son · ATU 921 21 recorded variants

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