Identification by feather taken from hero when he was transformed to bird.
Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H78.2
Motif
Cited in the index
- general *Type 665.
Carried in tale types
- The Man who Flew like a Bird and Swam like a Fish · ATU 665 4 recorded variants
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