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Motif

Recognition by unique ability to perform magic act.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition through personal peculiarities · view the constellation · filed as H31.7

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“Every morning she went with the child to the garden where the wild beasts were kept, and washed herself there in a clear stream. It happened once when the child was a little older, that it was lying in her arms and she fell asleep. Then came the old cook, who knew that the child had the power of wishing, and stole it away, and he took a hen, and cut it in pieces, and drojDped some of its blood on the Queen's apron and on her dress.”

Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 76 · served from our shelf  receiptuncorrected OCR — being verified against the scan

Attested across traditions
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • GermanGrimm Nos. 76, 89
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • Africa (Kordofan)Frobenius Atlantis IV 134ff. No. 13.
Within the index

Filed under Recognition by unique ability.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Recognition by ability to shed pearls for tearsOnly one man is able to read magic book
Filed beside it
Recognition by unique ability to dislodge sword. Sword is stuck in a stone or treeRecognition by unique ability to bend bowRecognition by unique ability to swing spearOnly one man can lift small pot from groundRecognition by unique ability to cut (carve) tree, etcRecognition by unique ability to break iron apple with first stone castRecognition by unique ability to shoot, swim, and drinkRecognition by unique ability to handle easily a heavy stoneRecognition by unique ability to play chessRecognition by unique ability to read inscriptionOnly one man is able to pluck fruits from tree
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Transformation: man to dog. (Cf. B641.1.)Disenchantment by covering with clothSpeaking blood drops. (Cf. D1003.)Magic results produced by wishing

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