Slipper test. Identification by fitting of slipper — Mythoi

Motif

Slipper test. Identification by fitting of slipper.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition through personal peculiarities · view the constellation · filed as H36.1

Filed across the traditions

Italian Basile Pentamerone I No. 6
French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 18f.
India *Thompson-Balys
general *Type 510
general *Cox Cinderella 504ff.
general *BP I 187
general *Fb "sko" III 288a
general Cosquin Contes Indiens 48ff.
general Saintyves Perrault 115ff., 156. Icelandic: *Boberg
general New Mexican: Rael Mod. Lang. Forum XVIII (1933).

Within the index

Filed under Recognition by exact fitting of clothes.

1 finer motif beneath it

Recognition by shoes with which the father had once beaten his son

Filed beside it

Garment fits only true king. (Cf. H41.)

Carried in tale types

Cinderella · ATU 510A 48 recorded variants

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