Recognition through branding — Mythoi

Motif

Recognition through branding.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H55

Filed across the traditions

India *Thompson-Balys.
general *Types 314, 502, 883B
general Dickson 41
general Chauvin V 152
general Tawney I 37, 92
general Burton Nights VII 89 n.

Within the index

Filed under Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Recognition through branding with hoof-marks Sacred animals branded by conjurer Recognition by tatoo

Filed beside it

Recognition by scar. (Cf. H56.) Recognition by wound. (Cf. H51.) Recognition by missing member Tell-tale hand-mark. Clandestine lover is identified by paint marks left on his skin by his mistress Recognition by ornaments under skin Recognition of transformed person (animal). (Cf. H48.) Recognition of other transformed persons Recognition of disenchanted person by physical attributes Marks of royalty. (Cf. H41, H171.5.) Identification by a hair Recognition by feather Recognition by physical attributes – miscellaneous

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Branding as punishment. (Cf. H55.)

Carried in tale types

Goldener (previously The Youth Transformed to a Horse) · ATU 314 2 recorded variants

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