Identification by hair found floating on water

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Identification by hair found floating on water.

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Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

general *Type 531
general *BP III 31 n. 1. 33
general **Golther "Die Jungfrau mit den goldenen Haaren" Studien zur Literaturgeschichte M. Bernays gewidmet (Leipzig, 1893). N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 355 n. 281.

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Identification by hair dropped by bird Recognition by hair found in a fish which has swallowed it Recognition by golden hair Identification by wolf's hair Recognition by missing hair Recognition of murderers by their short hair

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