Identity tested by account of common experiences — Mythoi

Motif

Identity tested by account of common experiences.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition through common knowledge. · view the constellation · filed as H15

Filed across the traditions

Missouri French Carrière.

Within the index

Filed under Recognition through common knowledge.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion. (Impostor fails.) Recognition by recalling common experiences

Filed beside it

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

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