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Motif

Recognition by physical attributes – miscellaneous.

Tests. · Identity tests: Recognition. · Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes. · view the constellation · filed as H79

Filed across the traditions
  • Jewish *Neuman.
Within the index

Filed under Recognition by bodily marks or physical attributes.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Troll's daughter after being cooked in kettle recognized by golden fingernail Identification of man by his little toe Recognition by voice Recognition by smile. Sultan frees prisoner when he recognizes him as a former aid Identification of man by his skull Recognition by large breasts that woman in bed is not husband's wife Recognition of monk by his large organ Identity established because one of man's teeth is blue
Filed beside it
Recognition by scar. (Cf. H56.) Recognition through branding Recognition by wound. (Cf. H51.) Recognition by missing member Tell-tale hand-mark. Clandestine lover is identified by paint marks left on his skin by his mistress 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

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