Recognition by overheard conversation with animal — Mythoi

Motif

Recognition by overheard conversation with animal.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition through common knowledge. · view the constellation · filed as H13.1

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Within the index

Filed under Recognition by overheard conversation (usually with animals or objects). Person not daring to reveal self directly thus attracts attention and recognition.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Recognition by overheard conversation with horse Recognition by overheard conversation with dog Recognition by overheard conversation with cow

Filed beside it

Recognition by overheard conversation with objects Recognition from overheard conversation of two sons Recognition from overheard conversation with flower-woman

Carried in tale types

The Princess Confined in the Mound · ATU 8702 recorded variants