Nude woman clothed in own hair (Godiva) — Mythoi

Motif

Nude woman clothed in own hair (Godiva).

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Remarkable physical organs. · view the constellation · filed as F555.3.1

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

EnglandBaughman.
general *Fb "hår" I 771b
general Type 710
general *BP I 21

Within the index

Filed under Very long hair.

1 finer motif beneath it

Girl's hair spreads on ground so that it hides her

Filed beside it

Hair recedes into head Holy man's hair of enormous length, so long has he remained praying at one spot Hair so long that girl can cover herself with it Rapid growth of hair as protection against being seen nude