Talking private parts betray unchastity — Mythoi

Motif

Talking private parts betray unchastity.

Tests. · Marriage tests. · Chasity tests. · Other indications of chastity. · view the constellation · filed as H451

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 24 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 296 n. 83d.
general *Taylor MLN XXI 249 n. 2
general Gering Hermes LI (1916) 632ff.

Within the index

Filed under Other indications of chastity.

Filed beside it

Disguise to test bride's chastity Chastity test: king weighs princess against a flower

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Magic private parts – human Magic excrements Magic object gives advice Bodily members as advisers. (Cf. D990.) Magic object points out road Blinded trickster directed by trees. He asks them their names and by their answers he can tell where he is. (Cf. D950.) Magic swallow-skin warns of danger. (Cf. D1025.4.) Speaking plant. (Cf. D965, F815.) Picture mistaken for original Creaking limbs. Numskull hears limbs creaking in the wind. He is sorry for them and holds them apart. While he is caught between them his enemies take advantage of him Raven steals the robes of Red Willow Men and finds them useless Deception into entering bag

Carried in tale types

Every Hole to Tell the Truth · ATU 1391 1 recorded variant

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