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24 motifs match “hideous” · back to the chapters
- Of first parents husband so hideous he is kept hidden. A1279.1
- Transformation: man becomes hideous. D52.1
- "Spirit of poetry" as hideous youth becomes beautiful. D682.4.2
- Magic object makes beautiful or hideous. D1337
- Magic object makes hideous. D1337.2
- Magic herbs render hideous. (Cf. D965.) D1337.2.2
- Dragon's breath renders hideous. (Cf. D1029.1.) D1337.2.3
- Magic hideousness. (Cf. D1337, D1860, M400.) D1870
- Girl magically made hideous. D1871
- Man made hideous. D1872
- Object magically made hideous. D1873
- Picture magically made hideous. D1873.1
- Hideous person magically makes self seem beautiful. D2031.4
- Fairy in hideous form. F234.2.2
- Trolls are usually ugly, hideous, big and strong. F455.2.2
- Hideous giant. F531.1.0.2
- Giant herdsman. Hideous beastlike giant guards a herd of wild fighting animals. Herdsman can seize one of them in such a way as to make rest beg mercy. G152
- Devil in hideous form. (Cf. G303.3.1.4.) G303.3.0.1
- Hideous food and drink at the night-spirits' (devils') feast. G303.25.14.1
- Father with handsome son and hideous daughter. Advises both to look in mirror daily lest son exchange handsome face for bad character; daughter to triumph over face by good manners. J244.1
- Beautiful woman in hideous disguise. K1821.7
- Beautiful woman married to hideous man: he is thankful, she patient. She says that they have thus both gained paradise. T268
- Animals ridicule foolish pride of owl in the beauty of his son's really hideous feet. T681.1
- Man weeps with gratitude to God because He did not make him hideous as toad. W27.1