58 motifs match “recognized”  ·  back to the chapters

• Gods recognized by natural phenomena associated with their worship – color, scent, etc. A139.11
• 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
• Water-spirits appearing like human beings are recognized by traces of water. F420.1.7
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Disguised man recognized by dog. H173
• Chieftain recognized by faithful swineherd. H173.1
• Chieftain recognized by former captive. H173.2
• Recognition by "force of nature". Unknown member of family immediately and magically recognized. H175
• Princess appears before crane (who had demanded her in marriage) and is recognized by him despite loathly disguise. H188
• 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
• 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
• Impoverished father begs from daughter he has banished: recognized. L432.2
• Father orders unrecognized son thrown into sea. N338.3.1
• 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
• 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