μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Recognition of murdered person by severed fingernail.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H57.2.2

Filed across the traditions
  • India Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Recognition by missing finger.

Filed beside it
Severed finger as sign of crime. Robber bridegroom thus detected

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