The constellation
K1013 False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him
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- Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" · K1013.1 entry
- "Painting" on the haycock. The fox persuades the wolf to lie on the hay in order to be painted. He sets fire to it · K1013.2 entry
- "Painting" with a red hot iron · K1013.3 entry
- Trickster to give wings to tiger. Wounds him fatally · K1013.4 entry
- False hair-restorer injures patient · K1013.5 entry
- Trick: breaking legs for prowess in dancing (or for swiftness) · K1013.6 entry
keeps company
- Sham physician · K1955 entry
- Captor's bag filled with animals or objects while captives escape · K526 entry
- Fugitive discovered by reflection in water · R351 entry
- Shepherdess born of red and blue egg · T542.1 entry
- Person comes to life · E1 entry
- Person falls into ogre's power · G400 entry
- Ogre carries victim in bag (basket) · G441 entry
- Bodies of victims in front of ogre's house · G691 entry
- Mask mistaken for face · J1793 entry
- Statue mistaken for living original. (Cf. K1840.) · J1794 entry
carried in tale type
attested in
- Tales of the North American Indians · Tale 71