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• Beautiful goddess. A125.4
• Cloud on lofty male mountain induced by a beautiful female mountain to bow to her feet: hence their present shape. A969.2
• Race of culture hero with ostrich: ostrich loses beautiful feathers. (Cf. A2402.2.) A2252.3
• Why bird has two beautiful feathers in his tail. A2378.8.7
• How ostrich lost beautiful feathers. (Cf. A2252.3.) A2402.2
• Thrush's beautiful voice. Exchanged with woodcock. (Cf. A2423.1.1, A2245.1.) A2423.2.1
• Mermaid half-beautiful, half-monstrous. B81.9.3
• Fox holds in its mouth a beautiful flower which he gives to hero. B584.1
• "Spirit of poetry" as hideous youth becomes beautiful. D682.4.2
• Hairy anchorite. Beast-like man seduced by beautiful woman becomes human and handsome. D733.1
• Magic object makes beautiful or hideous. D1337
• Milk gives magic beauty. When magic milk touches ugly girl she turns beautiful. (Cf. D1018.) D1337.1.3
• Magic apple makes beautiful. (Cf. D981.1.) D1337.1.10
• Magic object provides beautiful bride for hero. D1595
• Girl becomes more beautiful as she is burned but her brother, who loves her incestuously, turns to charcoal. D1865.2.1
• Hideous person magically makes self seem beautiful. D2031.4
• Druid makes self appear ugly on one side, beautiful on other. (Cf. D2031.0.4.) D2031.4.1
• Beautiful land of dead. (Rosengarten). E481.4
• Journey to island inhabited by only one (beautiful) woman. F112.0.1.1
• Voyage to Isle of Shape. Visitors become beautiful. F129.4.3
• Mountain of Venus. Hollow mountain otherworld where men live a life of ease and lustful pleasure in company with beautiful women. F131.1
• Otherworld people ever young, ever beautiful. F167.9
• Fairy in form of beautiful young woman. F234.2.5
• Beautiful woman found in bed with man after he has plugged keyholes to keep elves out. F304.3
• Offspring of fairy and mortal extraordinarily beautiful. F305.2
• Captured water fairy promises to make ugly man beautiful in return for her release. F341.2.1
• Fairies give beautiful clothes. F343.5
• Fairy woman exhibits her figure to warriors. Is most beautiful of women. F397
• Beautiful giantess. F531.1.0.1.1
• Men killed by look of beautiful princess. F574.1.3
• Remarkably beautiful woman. F575.1
• Birth of daughter so beautiful mother is frightened and abandons her. F575.1.1
• Old woman beautiful as in youth. F575.1.2
• Woman so beautiful sea is calm for her. F575.1.3
• Remarkably beautiful child. F575.3
• Extraordinarily beautiful mantle. None surpasses it. F821.4
• Death from sight of beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.8.1.) F1041.1.6
• Madness from seeing beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.1.6.) F1041.8.1
• Madness from sight of magically beautiful man. F1041.8.1.1
• Flame indicates presence of beautiful woman. (Cf. F1041.8.1. and cross references.) F1061.1
• Ogre eats beautiful girl hoping to have her beauty. G13.2
• Beautiful witch. (Cf. G264.) G229.5
• Ogress bathes in pool, is transformed into beautiful maiden, and becomes king's favorite wife. G264.0.1
• Devil as a beautiful young woman seduces man. G303.3.1.12.2
• Devil appears as a beautiful black wench. G303.3.1.12.3
• Man persecuted by a rakshasa in form of beautiful wench. G369.1.5
• Heroine in menial disguise discovered in her beautiful clothes: recognition follows. H151.6
• Contest in reaping: best reaper to get beautiful girl as wife. H331.1.7
• Devil held off from person by answering his riddles. St. Andrew the Bishop, and the Devil. The Devil, in form of beautiful maiden visits a holy bishop. St. Andrew appears as a pilgrim, answers the questions through which the devil seeks to keep him at a distance and discomfits the devil. (Cf. B302.22.3.) H543.1
• Riddle: what is most beautiful? H641
• What is most beautiful? The spring. H641.1
• What is most beautiful? Earth. H641.2
• Task: stealing beautiful clothing of a witch. H1151.23
• Task: planting beautiful garden. H1199.1
• Quest for beautiful girl about whom parrots are heard speaking. H1214.1
• Quest for the most beautiful of women. H1301
• Quest for the most beautiful bride. H1301.1
• Quest for the most beautiful bouquet. H1302
• Quest for the most beautiful rug. H1319.3
• Quest for the most beautiful ring. H1319.4
• Quest for beautiful saree for the queen. H1355.2
• Test of curiosity: the clock. A man is promised a beautiful clock if he can mind his own business for a whole year. He does. The giver tells him he is the second man who almost made sure of getting the clock. The man asks how the other missed getting it; he loses the clock himself. H1554.2
• Serpent directed on journey by his beautiful wife. J155.1.1
• Useful wins contest over beautiful. J242
• Useful and ugly preferred to expensive and beautiful. J245
• Children by day and by night. Artist paints beautiful children but his own are ugly. One kind, he says, are made by day, the other by night. J1273
• The fairest thing in the garden. Three brothers asked by princess what is the most beautiful thing in the garden. The youngest replies, "Yourself." He wins the princess. J1472
• Diving for reflection of beautiful woman. J1791.6
• Ugly woman sees beautiful woman reflected in water and thinks it is herself. Prides herself on her beauty. J1791.6.1
• Ogre sees beautiful woman reflected in water. Attempts to drink the lake dry. (Cf. J1791.3.1.) J1791.6.2
• Thief stops to admire beautiful things before stealing them. Caught. J2136.5.1
• Foolish husband puts out wife's eyes at night because he heard that a beautiful wife is an enemy. J2462.3
• Trickster exacts beautiful wife from curious people. They look into a carriage in which it is falsely said there is a princess. Trickster's dead wife is in the carriage. K443.6.1
• False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him. K1013
• Making wife beautiful by burning her. K1013.2.1
• Burning children on promise of giving them fawn's beautiful spots. K1013.2.2
• Beautiful woman in hideous disguise. K1821.7
• Beautiful woman blackens face as disguise. K1821.7.1
• Disguised flayer tightens skin to look beautiful. K1941.1
• Ugly women complain of falling flowers. King hearing them supposes them delicate and beautiful. K1984.4
• Fool wins beautiful woman as wife. L161.2
• Sun cursed by man for its burning rays, wind for its hot breath, but moon is blessed for its soft, cool, and beautiful light. L351.2
• Which is more beautiful, nymph of Luck or of Ill-Luck (Luck when coming, Ill-Luck when going). N141.3
• Hunter accidentally discovers beautiful girl being secretly reared in a cave. N724
• Nobility of character a mark of kings. Kings overcomes passion for beautiful captives and sends them back untouched to their people. P12.9
• Cleric tempts self among beautiful women, lives chastely. Q537.2
• Wife gets back her husband from land of serpents by charming him with her beautiful dance. R152.4
• Falling in love with beautiful voice. T11.8
• Man falls in love on seeing dead body of beautiful girl. (Cf. T466.) T16.2
• Beautiful woman enticed by wonderful flower. T56.4
• Wooing the strong and beautiful bride. T58
• Man's senior wife ugly but diligent; his second, beautiful but lazy. T145.7
• Beautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradise. T268
• Husband's indiscreet boast about wife brings about his death. King regards his wife as so beautiful that he has a friend view her naked through a crack in the wall. Wife learns of his act, goes over to the man who has viewed her, and with the latter brings about the king's death. T295
• Woman sells favors for beautiful clothes. T455.3
• Child born beautiful on one side, hairy on other. T551.4.1
• Handsome exterior does not indicate beautiful soul. Angel holds nose when handsome sinner passes. U119.3
• Beautiful girl seated on large lotus flower holding big elephant in each hand which she devours and throws off alternately. X943.1
• Wall in construction collapses. Finally the king finds out that the sea is guilty. (The chain: mason – cement mixer – beautifully singing woman – pearl necklace – jeweller – diver – sea.) Z49.11.1
• Virginity, Wisdom, and Prophecy personified as three beautiful maidens. Z139.8