Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?" — Mythoi

Motif

Making the beard golden: "such a one". A man named "Such a one" persuades an ogre to have his beard gilded. He covers it with tar and leaves the ogre caught to the tar-kettle. The ogre with his tar-kettle wanders about and asks everyone, "Have you seen such a one?"

Deceptions. · Deception into self-injury. · Deception through false doctoring. · view the constellation · filed as K1013.1

Cited in the index

general *Type 1138.

Within the index

Filed under False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him.

Filed beside it

"Painting" on the haycock. The fox persuades the wolf to lie on the hay in order to be painted. He sets fire to it "Painting" with a red hot iron Trickster to give wings to tiger. Wounds him fatally False hair-restorer injures patient Trick: breaking legs for prowess in dancing (or for swiftness)

Carried in tale types

Gilding the Beard · ATU 1138 1 recorded variant

ask the rhapsode about this motif · search the shelf for “tar-kettle” · wander