μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Beautiful woman in hideous disguise.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Deception by disguise or illusion. · Deception by disguise. · view the constellation · filed as K1821.7

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Disguise by changing bodily appearance.

1 finer motif beneath it
Beautiful woman blackens face as disguise
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 Youths wear false beards (of grass, wool) Disguise by dyeing complexion Disguise by cutting one eye out Disguise as old man Disguise in wooden covering Disguise by cutting off hair

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