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- Sun sister and moon brother. Brother visits sister at night. She marks him to identify him. He flees and she follows with flaming brand. She is sun and he the moon. A736.1.1
- Magic knowledge enables man to identify headless body. D1819.3
- Ghost asked to identify self "in name of God." E451.4.1
- Grieving mortal taken by god of the dead up to otherworld to identify his son, who has just died. F12.2
- Recognition by ability to identify property. H19.1
- Recognition of reincarnated person by ability to identify former weapons. H19.1.1
- Identifying tokens sent with messenger. H82
- Marriage tokens identifying lover. H82.2
- Pieces taken from flags serve to identify. H103
- King finds note with children in casket floated down river identifying them as his. (Cf. S141.) H157
- Test: identifying what type of rice is in sack. H522.3
- Dead man identified by his cough. Numskull asked to identify corpse tries to do so by his cough. J1937.1
- Fool at baths believes he is someone else. Sees everybody naked. Puts straw on his shoulder to identify himself. Straw floats to another bather. "You are me and I am you!" J2012.6
- Boy, posing as magician, agitates purported all-knowing pig's head in front of his enemies, identifying them as dishonest men. K1956.10
- False queen puts horseflesh in bed of one with child so as to identify her as horse-eating thief. K2127.2