Recognition by wound. (Cf. H51.)

Motif

Recognition by wound. (Cf. H51.)

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H56

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Scholars’ trail — 7references

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.

Missouri FrenchCarrière
SpanishEspinosa Jr. Nos. 169, 170
IndiaThompson-Balys
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 417.
general *Types 314, 502
general *Cosquin Études 447ff.
general Dickson 42 n. 41

Within the index

Filed under Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Recognition by hole burned in hand when woman removes glove Mutilation of children's bodies for identification

Filed beside it

Recognition by scar. (Cf. H56.)Recognition through branding 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

Recognition by scar. (Cf. H56.)

Carried in tale types

Goldener (previously The Youth Transformed to a Horse) · ATU 3142 recorded variants

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