Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool) — Mythoi

Motif

Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool).

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1821.4

Filed across the traditions

Irish myth *Cross.

Within the index

Filed under Disguise by changing bodily appearance.

1 finer motif beneath it

Disguise as hairy man by putting on lambskins

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 painting body Disguise by veiling face 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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