Recognition of person transformed to animal — Mythoi

Motif

Recognition of person transformed to animal.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H62.1

Cited in the index

general *Type 325
general *BP II 60.

Within the index

Filed under Recognition of transformed person (animal). (Cf. H48.)

2 finer motifs beneath it

Person transformed to animal recognized by his eyes Person transformed to animal recognized by ability to read

Filed beside it

Recognition of man transformed to horse Horse recognizes kol transformed to look like his master and throws him off Marvelous horse identified by prince though in form of miserable worn-out one

Carried in tale types

The Magician and his Pupil · ATU 325 4 recorded variants

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