Ugly by day; fair by night — Mythoi

Motif

Ugly by day; fair by night.

Magic. · Transformation. · Miscellaneous transformation incidents. · Periodic transformation. · view the constellation · filed as D621.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Germanic Grimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes , Tale 135 135.— THE WHITE BEIDE AND THE BLACK ONE.
Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 1, Story 7

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth Cross.
general *Köhler-Bolte II 435ff.

Within the index

Filed under Daily transformation.

Filed beside it

One shape by day; another by night Animal by day; man by night Tree by day; man by night Size of object transformed at night Sheep by day; dog by night Young man issues from conch-shell every evening

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