Magic beautification

Motif

Magic beautification.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Lasting magic qualities. · Magic beautification. · view the constellation · filed as D1860

Attested across traditions

North American Indigenous Tales of the North American Indians , Tale 68 receipt

Filed across the traditions

Breton Sébillot Incidents s. v. "beauté"
French Canadian Barbeau JAFL XXIX 17
Jewish Neuman
Buddhist myth Malalasekera II 527. – N. Am. Indian: *Thompson Tales 349 n. 259, (Zuñi): Parsons JAFL XXXI 244 No. 16
Africa (Fjort) Dennett 43 No. 6, (Hottentot): Bleek 76 No. 35. – See also all references to D732 and D733.
general BP I 86ff., 99ff., 165ff., 207ff. (Gr. Nos. 11, 13, 21, 24)
general *Loomis White Magic 80, 82
general Cox Cinderella 481 n. 12 (most of references there given). Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 335

Within the index

8 finer motifs beneath it

Magic beautification of fairy. (Cf. D732, F234.) Magic beauty bestowed Beautification by stroking (tapping) Magic beautification through prayer by saint. (Cf. D1766.1.) Beautification by death and resuscitation Other means of beautification Magic beautification of house Magic beautification of animal

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Magic hideousness. (Cf. D1337, D1860, M400.) Miraculous beautification upon conversion to Christianity. (Cf. D1860.)

Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes

Magic dish Beautification by death and resuscitation Resuscitation by jumping (stepping) over Resuscitation by boiling Arrogant mistress repaid in kind by her lover

Carried in tale types

The Kind and the Unkind Girls (previously The Spinning-Women by the Spring · ATU 480 12 recorded variants
The Black and the White Bride · ATU 403 4 recorded variants
The Predestined Wife [T22 · ATU 930A 4 recorded variants
The Beautiful and the Ugly Twinsisters · ATU 711 2 recorded variants

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