Tailor married to princess betrays trade by calling for needle and thread

Motif

Tailor married to princess betrays trade by calling for needle and thread.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition through personal peculiarities · view the constellation · filed as H38.2.1

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.

general *Type 1640
general BP I 148 ff.

Within the index

Filed under Impostor of low origin recognized by habitual speech.

Filed beside it

Peasant boy masking as prince betrays self by his answers Recognition of maidservant substitute bride by her habitual conversation Weaver married to princess betrays trade by talking in his sleep Substitution of low-caste boy for promised child detected when he prefers long road to short one through jungle (swimming instead of ferry, etc.)

Carried in tale types

The Brave Tailor · ATU 16402 recorded variants

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