μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Ugly fish borrows skin of handsome fish for courtship and marriage.

Deceptions. · Deception through shams. · Impostures. · Marital impostors. · view the constellation · filed as K1918.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Africa (Wakweli) Bender 57f.
Within the index

Filed under Monster disguises and wins girl. Borrows wedding garments one by one; later returns them one by one and reveals monster form.

1 finer motif beneath it
Ogre imposes on widow by assuming form of dead husband

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