Disguise by painting body — Mythoi

Motif

Disguise by painting body.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1821.2

Filed across the traditions

Hawaii Beckwith Myth 443
general Boje XIX 67ff.
general Africa (Mambettu): Casati Ten Years in Equatoria (London, 1891) I 162.

Within the index

Filed under Disguise by changing bodily appearance.

Filed beside it

Disguise by dyeing beard. Youths have been advised never to serve a man with a red beard. The trickster dyes his beard black Disguise by veiling face Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool) Disguise by dyeing complexion Disguise by cutting one eye out Beautiful woman in hideous disguise Disguise as old man Disguise in wooden covering Disguise by cutting off hair

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