Identification by hair dropped by bird — Mythoi

Motif

Identification by hair dropped by bird.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H75.2

Cited in the index

general *Type 531
general *BP III 31 n. 1, 33
general **Golther ibid.

Within the index

Filed under Identification by a hair.

Filed beside it

Identification by hair found floating on water 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

Carried in tale types

The Clever Horse (previously Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False) · ATU 531 216 recorded variants

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