Recognition by birthmark.
Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H51.1
Motif
Filed across the traditions
- Italian Novella *Rotunda
- Spanish Espinosa Jr. No. 140
- N. Am. Indian (Blackfoot) Wissler and Duvall PaAM II 109.
- general *Types 400, 850
- general Dickson 49 nn. 58, 59
- general cf. Shakespeare's Cymbeline II, 2, 38
- general BP II 318, 528
- general German. Grimm No. 92
Within the index
Filed under Recognition by scar. (Cf. H56.)
Carried in tale types
- The Birthmarks of the Princess · ATU 850 2 recorded variants
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