Again, if a false claimant intimidates her into silence about who actually killed the monster as in the fairy tale "The Two Brothers", when the hero appears, she will endorse his story, but she will not tell the truth prior to them; she often agrees to marry the false claimant in the hero's absence. The hero has often cut out the tongue of the dragon, so when the false hero cuts off its head, his claim to have killed it is refuted by its lack of a tongue; the hero produces the tongue and so proves his claim to marry the princess. In some tales, however, the princess herself takes steps to ensure that she can identify the hero—cutting off a piece of his cloak as in "Georgic and Merlin", giving him tokens as in "The Sea-Maiden"—and so separate him from the false hero.