39 motifs match “identity”  ·  back to the chapters

• Identity of creator. A1
• Tabu: revealing identity of certain person. C422
• Tabu: revealing dragon-fighter's identity. Dragon-fighter forbids princess whom he has rescued to tell who he is. C422.1
• Tabu: disclosing own identity. A supernatural person must not tell who he is. C436
• Transformed bird reveals its identity by speaking out. (Cf. D150.) D1610.32
• Magic knowledge of identity of stranger. D1810.0.13
• Identity of grave revealed by magic. D1819.5
• Identity of singers revealed by magic. D1819.6
• Fairy reveals her true identity when despite heavy rain she remains dry. F259.3
• Devil wooes woman; she discovers identity in time to escape with aid of minister who swallows candle after getting devil to promise she could live as long as the candle lasted. (Cf. K551.9.) G303.12.5.4
• Identity tests. Recognition. Elaborate means are employed in folk-literature for the recognition of persons even though they have been separated a very short time. The various means used are detailed in the following discussion. H0
• Identity tested by account of common experiences. H15
• Identity tested by demanding that person say again what he said on former occasion. (Impostor fails.) H15.1
• Weaver married to princess betrays his identity when he unconsciously waves his hands as though he were weaving and asks for his shuttle. H38.2.4.1
• Fox (in man's form) betrays identity when he procures fox-food for human wife. H48.2
• Identity established because one of man's teeth is blue. H79.8
• Dragon-tongue proof. Dragon slayer cuts out the tongues and uses them later to prove his identity as slayer. H105.1
• Vanquished ruler in disguise gets audience with victor. "What would you do if your enemy were to kneel before you and beg forgiveness?" "I would forgive him." Reveals identity and is pardoned. J829.3
• Mistaken identity. A bride slips up behind her husband and kisses him. He is annoyed. She: "Pardon me, I did not know it was you" J1485
• Other creatures with mistaken identity. J1769
• Objects with mistaken identity. J1770
• Uncertainty about own identity. J2010
• Pumpkin tied to another's leg. A numskull ties a pumpkin to his leg at night so that he shall know himself in the morning. Someone ties the pumpkin to another's leg and the numskull is not sure of his identity next morning. J2013.3
• Boys scolded in order to conceal their identity. K649.3
• Access gained by the aid of rival's mule. Man tries in vain to learn the identity of his friend's mistress. Mounts his friend's mule, which takes him to the secret rendezvous. K1349.3
• Husband rescues wife's paramour. Not knowing lover's identity, husband takes him to his wife and entrusts him to her care. He then leaves on a trip. K1544.1
• Lover's gift regained: accidental discovery of identity. The lover, ignorant of the identity of the husband, tells him of his experience with the wife. The husband persuades the lover to lead him to the scene, where the wife is compelled to restore all but a small part of the money. K1581.4
• Teacher instructs pupil in the art of love: cuckolded. Student, ignoring woman's identity, seduces the teacher's wife, and reports success to him. The teacher makes futile attempts to surprise wife with pupil. K1692
• Feigned ignorance about person's identity in order to tell one's frank opinion of him. K1792
• Feigned ignorance of person's identity in order not to reveal king. K1792.1
• Bad breath and forked tongue reveal identity of snake-king in guise of human. K1822.3
• Warriors whitewash weapons thus disguising identity of one of their number who bears white-handled battle-axe. K1839.6
• False bride's mutilated feet. In order to wear the shoes with which the husband is testing the identity of his bride, the false bride cuts her feet. She is detected. K1911.3.3.1
• Death as result of mistaken identity: wrong person killed. N338
• Impostor accidentally gives king talking bed which reveals his identity. N617
• Man in love with his own sister accidentally learns her identity. N681.3.2
• Hero's (heroine's) identity established as he (she) is on the point of being executed. N686
• Missing girl reveals identity and saves man condemned for kidnapping her. N692.1
• Incognito mistress. King's mistress secretly becomes hero's without revealing identity. T476