Tell-tale hand-mark. Clandestine lover is identified by paint marks left on his skin by his mistress — Mythoi

Motif

Tell-tale hand-mark. Clandestine lover is identified by paint marks left on his skin by his mistress.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H58

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 2 receipt

Filed across the traditions

India Thompson-Balys
Hindu Tawney I 15
N. Am. Indian *Thompson Tales 273 n. 1.
general *Type 950
general Köhler-Bolte I 200

Within the index

Filed under Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Disguised mistress identified by chalk marks left on back by lover Clandestine lover identified by scratches left on face by lady

Filed beside it

Recognition by scar. (Cf. H56.) Recognition through branding Recognition by wound. (Cf. H51.) Recognition by missing member 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

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Pursuit of sun by moon Moon as a person Brother-sister incest

Carried in tale types

Rhampsinitus · ATU 950 1 recorded variant

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