Recognition by missing finger

Motif

Recognition by missing finger.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H57.2

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Scholars’ trail — 5references

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.

IcelandicBoberg
BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "doigt"
SpanishEspinosa Jr. 120, 121.
general *Hartland Perseus III 207ff.
general Dickson 42 n. 42

Within the index

Filed under Recognition by missing member.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Severed finger as sign of crime. Robber bridegroom thus detected Recognition of murdered person by severed fingernail

Filed beside it

Recognition of resuscitated person by missing member Recognition by broken tooth Recognition by missing toe Recognition by description of woman with missing hands Recognition by artificial hands

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