Severed head as proof of killing

Motif

Severed head as proof of killing.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Identification by tokens. · Identification by matching parts of divided token. · view the constellation · filed as H106.2

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Icelandic*Boberg
CheremisSebeok-Nyerges.
general Type 507B (H. C. Andersen Rejsekammeraten)

Within the index

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

Filed beside it

Identification by severed hand

Carried in tale types

The King and the Farmer's Son · ATU 92121 recorded variants

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