Ugly sister helps pretty one.
Reversal of fortune. · Unpromising hero (heroine). · The unpromising surpasses the promising. · view the constellation · filed as L145.1
Motif
Cited in the index
- general *Type 711.
Within the index
Filed under Ugly preferred to pretty sister.
Carried in tale types
- The Beautiful and the Ugly Twinsisters · ATU 711 4 recorded variants
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