Recognition by song (music). Person is recognized because the song is sung only by him or because he is the only one besides the listener who knows it

Motif

Recognition by song (music). Person is recognized because the song is sung only by him or because he is the only one besides the listener who knows it.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition through common knowledge. · view the constellation · filed as H12

Scholars’ trail — 11references

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.

NorseDe la Saussaye 137
LithuanianBalys Index Nos. *452f.
BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "chanson"
Missouri FrenchCarrière
ItalianBasile Pentamerone III No. 3 and the legend of Richard Coeur de Leon and Blondel
India*Thompson-Balys
JapaneseAnesaki 359
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 530, 539
New ZealandDixon 83
West IndiesFlowers 455.
general Thien Motive 9

Within the index

Filed under Recognition through common knowledge.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Missing female poet discovered through test of poetic ability Recognition by verse of song

Filed beside it

Recognition through story-telling. Telling of a story known to both persons concerned brings about recognition Recognition by overheard conversation (usually with animals or objects). Person not daring to reveal self directly thus attracts attention and recognition Recognition by observing emotional reactions of another to object of common experience Identity tested by account of common experiences Recognition by describing or producing object of common knowledge Recognition by reminders of what has been said Recognition by password Recognition through common knowledge – miscellaneous

Travels with

Recognition by life history sung. (Cf. H12.)

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