Recognition by telling life history

Motif

Recognition by telling life history.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition through common knowledge. · view the constellation · filed as H11.1

Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 19
India*Thompson-Balys.
general *Type 506
general Köhler-Bolte II 351ff.

Within the index

Filed under Recognition through story-telling. Telling of a story known to both persons concerned brings about recognition.

4 finer motifs beneath it

Recognition at inn (hospital, etc.) where all must tell their life histories Recognition: life story painted on wall Recognition by life history sung. (Cf. H12.)Recognition by tracing ancestry

Carried in tale types

The Grateful Dead · ATU 5054 recorded variants

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