Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Recognition by voice averts mistaken attack

recognition_by_voice_averts_mistaken_attack

A motif of the Recognition Tokens and Identity Proofs family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


caucasian

  • Caucasian Folk-Tales A TATAR VARIANT 231 / A TATAR VARIANT 233 / A TATAR VARIANT 235 / A TATAR VARIANT 237; lines 10183-10252 confidence: high

    Qahirman sits on the bird’s back; the bird asks for a skin of water for the long way and flies for two weeks toward the fortress where Rustumsal lives.

    Rustumsal is about to shoot at the bird, but Qahirman calls out and Rustumsal recognizes his father’s voice.

    read in the book