Very long hair — Mythoi

Motif

Very long hair.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Remarkable persons. · Remarkable physical organs. · view the constellation · filed as F555.3

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Greco-Roman The Aeneid , Book 12
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 20
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 28
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 30

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic Boberg
India *Thompson-Balys.
general Child V 482 s. v. "hair"

Within the index

Filed under Remarkable hair. (Cf. F521, F531.1.6.3.)

5 finer motifs beneath it

Hair recedes into head Nude woman clothed in own hair (Godiva) 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

Filed beside it

Gold hair Silver hair Very thick hair Multi-colored hair Man has drop of blood on end of each hair Poisonous white hair in eyebrow that causes death to the first person who sees it each day Hair so stiff that apples falling on it would be impaled Hair so curly that nuts falling on it would be held Hair emits sound

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