The constellation
K1984 Girls keep up appearances to deceive suitors as to their desirability
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Other impostures · K1980 entry
beneath it
- The lisping sisters. The girls have been warned against speaking, but forget and are found out · K1984.1 entry
- The girl who ate so little. When the suitor sees her baking he finds that she can eat · K1984.2 entry
- The girl with the ugly name. Her mother gives her a new one but the girl does not recognize it and her mother must call her by her old name · K1984.3 entry
- Ugly women complain of falling flowers. King hearing them supposes them delicate and beautiful · K1984.4 entry
- Blind fiancée betrays self. Mistakes one object for another · K1984.5 entry
carried in tale type
- Keeping up Appearances · ATU 1459**