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• Gods recognized by natural phenomena associated with their worship – color, scent, etc. A139.11
• Origin of death when early people put on new skins. Child fails to recognize mother, who puts old skin back on. A1335.4
• God changes color (tails) of devil's cows. Devil makes all animals of same color (or all tailless). When God makes them of different colors (or with tails) devil no longer recognizes them. (Cf. A2378.1.) A2286.2.4
• Magic horse mysteriously recognized by everyone. B184.1.9
• Wolf boy (girl) running around with wolf and cubs recovered by parents after six years: recognized by scar. B635.2
• Mortal not to recognize fairy who gives him gift. F348.5
• Water-spirits appearing like human beings are recognized by traces of water. F420.1.7
• Marvelous sensitiveness: man recognizes milk of his stolen cows. F647.5.3
• Blind man able to recognize real pearls by their smell, diamonds by touch, a good horse by screwing its ears, and raja of noble birth by his generosity. F655.1
• Blind tiger recognizes by man's voice that he is a hypocrite. F655.2
• Chief beheads sentinel who does not recognize him. F1041.16.9
• Child recognizes relative's flesh when it is served to be eaten. G61.1
• Mother recognizes child's flesh when it is served to be eaten. G61.2
• Witch recognized by seeing wandering soul return. G251
• Witch recognized by seeing wasp (beetle) enter her mouth while asleep. Only when it enters can she be awakened. G251.1
• Witch recognized when skin of witch is found with soul absent. (Cf. G229.1.1.) G251.2
• Witch in form of cat has hand cut off: recognized next morning by missing hand. G252
• A cat in form of an old woman has hand cut off; recognized next morning by missing paw. G252.0.1
• Witch recognized by looking in or through magic object. G259.1
• Witch recognized by odor. (Cf. G303.4.8.1, G303.6.3.4.) G259.2
• Witch may be recognized by absence of bleeding when she is pricked with pins. G259.3
• Witch may be recognized after death by great weight of corpse. (Cf. E400.) G259.4
• Witch stretches out her hand and brings water from ocean without getting out of her bed; is recognized. G259.5
• A little girl recognizes the devil by his tail. G303.4.6.1
• Boy recognizes devil when he fans fire with his tail. G303.4.6.2
• Devil comes out of man when monk recognizes devil's voice in man. G303.16.19.7
• Recognition by song (music). Person is recognized because the song is sung only by him or because he is the only one besides the listener who knows it. H12
• Disguised king (noble) recognized by habitual speech. H38.1
• Impostor of low origin recognized by habitual speech. H38.2
• Slave recognized by his conversation, habits, and character. H38.3
• Princess on the pea. Princess recognized by her inability to sleep on bed which has a pea under its dozen mattresses. H41.1
• King recognized by unique ability to occupy certain seat (Siege perilous). H41.9
• Chief in disguise carries bundle so large that rank is recognized. H41.10
• God recognized by his supernatural powers. H45.1
• God in disguise recognized by tokens on his feet and hands. H45.4
• Cannibal recognized by cloud of dust raised. H46
• Cannibal nature of woman recognized when she devours dead buffalo raw. H46.1
• Demon recognized by corpse it occupies turning to worm when stake is driven through it. H47
• Animal in human form recognized. (Cf. H64.) H48
• Person transformed to animal recognized by his eyes. H62.1.1
• Person transformed to animal recognized by ability to read. H62.1.2
• Horse recognizes kol transformed to look like his master and throws him off. H62.2
• Woman transformed to flower is recognized by the absence of dew on petals. H63.1
• Werwolf killed and recognized by man's clothes under the wolf's skin or rosary on the neck. H64.2
• Troll's daughter after being cooked in kettle recognized by golden fingernail. H79.1
• Recognition by smile. Sultan frees prisoner when he recognizes him as a former aid. H79.4
• True redeemers to be recognized by tokens. H80.1
• Clandestine lover recognized by tokens. H81
• Recognition by knife. Man who is werwolf recognized by knife which was carried away by the wolf. H132
• Recognition by calabash. Slave recognizes calabash and knows that girl lives. H133
• Attention drawn by gold and silver decorated mouse: as princess turns after it, suitor recognizes her. H151.1.2
• Abandoned child recognized in game. H151.9.1
• Poor people given alms: one of them recognized. H152.1
• Impoverished husband in service of wife recognized. H152.2
• Abandoned wife recognized among workers. H152.3
• Outcast wife (children) builds castle identical with king's, invites him, and is recognized. H153
• Abandoned queen invites all to forest, gives appropriate food to her persecutors, and is recognized. H155
• Father recognizes son after having thrown him in oven. H165
• Disguised man recognized by dog. H173
• Chieftain recognized by faithful swineherd. H173.1
• Chieftain recognized by former captive. H173.2
• Animal first to recognize his returned master. H173.3
• Recognition by "force of nature". Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized. H175
• Child mystically recognizes woman as his mother. H175.2
• Princess appears before crane (who had demanded her in marriage) and is recognized by him despite loathly disguise. H188
• Task: eating room-full of salt. (Trickster eats only a pinch. "He who has eaten with a friend as much salt as I have eaten and does not recognize the friendship will not do so though he eat ten rooms full of salt.") H1141.3
• Cow-herd looking for cattle thief recognizes him in the lion. Desists. J561.2
• "High-born alone recognizes one of equal rank with himself." Jackal sees man with instrument he is unfamiliar with, comes up to him and salutes him "Lord of Delhi." Man calls him Lord of Jungle and tells above. J814.3
• Death's three messengers. Warns man by loss of appetite, loss of desire for drink, and sickness. Man does not recognize the messengers. J1051
• Deduction: the one-eyed camel. A she-camel has passed, blind in one eye; on the one side she carries wine and on the other vinegar; two men lead her, one a heathen and the other a Jew. Solution: She is recognized as a she-camel by the footprints; she is blind because she feeds on only one side of the road; the wine dropping down has soaked into the earth; the vinegar makes bubbles; the heathen is not so careful in his manners as is the Jew. J1661.1.1
• Banker able to recognize honest merchant by a single hair of his mustache. J1661.1.9
• Man does not recognize his own reflection in the water. J1791.7
• Fool does not recognize his own house and family. J2014
• Man does not recognize his name when it is called: he is accustomed to hear his nickname. (Cf. K1984.3.) J2016
• Numskull doesn't recognize his own horse. Finds it only when the rest ride away and he takes the only one left. J2023
• Boy refuses pearls for worthless stones; jeweler recognizes them for what they are. J2093.3.1
• Man cannot recognize his own house which has been turned into a mansion by emperor. J2316.1
• The evil woman in the glass case as the last commodity. The man is to belong to the devil as soon as he has sold his goods. If he has any goods that no one will buy, he is to be free. The man puts an evil old woman in a glass case. When the devil sees her, he recognizes her. "Whoever knows her will refuse to buy her." The man goes free. K216.1
• Ogam inscription on shield orders that bearer (who does not know meaning) shall be killed. Poet (who recognizes the meaning) reports to king that inscription means a request for honorable treatment. K511.2
• Fallen king in disguise recognized by former ally and helped. K1812.18
• Virgin living disguised as a man and unrecognized in a monastery becomes abbot (St. Eugenia). K1837.7
• Wound masked by other wound in order not to be recognized. K1872.4
• Queen changes her own ugly twins for slave's pretty son. Later recognizes the better character of the twins, and changes back again. K1921.3
• Impostor (magician, demon) takes the place of the king. The ladies of the harem recognize the false king, and the true king is reinstated. K1934.1
• The girl with the ugly name. Her mother gives her a new one but the girl does not recognize it and her mother must call her by her old name. K1984.3
• Accustomed rags preferred to new garments. A Brahmin returns home to find a palace instead of a cottage; he recognizes his wife only after she throws off her jewels and ornaments to stand before him in her old rags. L217
• Impoverished father begs from daughter he has banished: recognized. L432.2
• Father orders unrecognized son thrown into sea. N338.3.1
• A wise man (saint, brahmin) recognizes that a man unwittingly carries a venomous serpent in his proviant sack and warns him. N848.2
• Customary to shave heads of demented so that they may be recognized as such. P192.6
• Fool recognized by lump on his forehead. P192.7
• Son must threaten father before he will recognize him as son, even though he brings ring from his mother. P233.7
• Rank among children recognized by quality of appointments and food. P632.3
• Man saves the unrecognized devil from thunder and is generously rewarded. Q45.2.1
• Each likes his own children best. Snipe asks sportsman to spare its small ones, easily recognized as being the prettiest in the forest. To be on the safe side he shoots only the ugliest he can find. They are the young snipes. (Often told of the ape.) T681
• Rancher is not recognized by his wife and family after he has cleaned up in town at hotel. W115.3