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Motif

Recognition by missing member.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Spanish Espinosa Jr. Nos. 150, 168, 171.
  • general *Hartland Perseus III 208f.
Within the index

Filed under Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes.

6 finer motifs beneath it
Recognition of resuscitated person by missing member Recognition by broken tooth Recognition by missing finger Recognition by missing toe Recognition by description of woman with missing hands Recognition by artificial hands
Filed beside it
Recognition by scar. (Cf. H56.) Recognition through branding Recognition by wound. (Cf. H51.) 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

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