Recognition by resemblance — Mythoi

Motif

Recognition by resemblance.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by resemblance. · view the constellation · filed as H20

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter XXIII XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter IV IV. Magic and Religion
Greco-Roman The Library (Bibliotheca) , BOOK I, ch. IX

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross
Icelandic Boberg
Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "reconnaissance"
Greek Homer Odyssey IV 144, 150. → on our shelf: The Odyssey, Book IV

Within the index

3 finer motifs beneath it

Recognition through picture. Picture is publicly displayed and brings about recognition of lost person Recognition through image Recognition from dream

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Drink causes magic forgetfulness. (Cf. D1040, D2004.3.1.) Disguise as slave Impossible to refuse the request of a troubled nobleman

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