61 motifs match “ugly”  ·  back to the chapters

• God with good looking and ugly bodies. A123.1.3
• Ugly god. A139.14
• Culture hero assumes ugly and deformed guise. A527.3.1.1
• Why Jews read and write from right to left: because of the ugly name of the king of the Jews. A1689.6
• Why Chenchu women are ugly. A1689.9
• Peacock given ugly feet so as to prevent too great arrogance. (Cf. A2375.2.2.) A2232.7
• Peacock has snake carry devil into paradise: cursed with ugly voice and feet. (Cf. A2375.2.2, A2423.1.2.) A2236.2.2
• Ass betrays deity's secret: hence his ugly bray. A2239.3
• God makes serpent ugly. (Cf. A2402.1, A2494.) A2286.0.1
• Why peacock has ugly feet. (Cf. A2232.7, A2236.2.2, A2375.2.1.) A2375.2.2
• Animal's ugly voice. A2423.1
• Woodcock's ugly voice. Exchanged with thrush. (Cf. A2245.1.) A2423.1.1
• Peacock's ugly voice. (Cf. A2236.2.2.) A2423.1.2
• Loon's ugly voice. A2423.1.3
• Ugly man becomes handsome. D52.2
• Ugly by day; fair by night. D621.3
• Milk gives magic beauty. When magic milk touches ugly girl she turns beautiful. (Cf. D1018.) D1337.1.3
• Magic water makes ugly. (Cf. D1242.1.) D1337.2.4
• Magic skin makes person appear ugly. (Cf. D1005.) D1337.2.5
• River grateful for being praised even when ugly. (Cf. D915.) D1658.1.1
• Handsome man magically made ugly. D1872.1
• Druid makes self appear ugly on one side, beautiful on other. (Cf. D2031.0.4.) D2031.4.1
• Fairy's son is pale, dark, and ugly. F233.4
• Captured water fairy promises to make ugly man beautiful in return for her release. F341.2.1
• Dwarfs are ugly. F451.2.0.1
• Trolls are usually ugly, hideous, big and strong. F455.2.2
• Remarkably ugly feet (and hands). F551.4
• Madness from seeing ugly ogre. F1041.8.3
• Devil appears in the form of a man who is repugnantly ugly. (Cf. G303.3.0.1.) G303.3.1.4
• Devil helps ugly man win wife. G303.22.7
• Ugly ogre terrifies women who flee and are drowned. G476
• Better send an ugly woman to the devil than a pretty one. Man chooses ugly mistress. J229.4
• Useful and ugly preferred to expensive and beautiful. J245
• Wasp twits butterfly with coming from ugly chrysalis: unimportant where you come from. J312.1
• Foolish youth in love with ugly old mistress. J445.1
• Better to marry ugly than fair wife. Less hard to satisfy. J482.2
• Liar rewarded by the apes. King of apes asks visitors how they like his children (courtiers). Truthful visitor tells that they are very ugly, and is punished. Liar praises their beauty and receives reward. J815.1
• Noble and ugly holy man embraces man who calls him ugly, saying he loves those who see him as he really is. J921
• Man does not court ugly woman: she might say yes. Therefore he keeps silent. J1074.2
• 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
• Woman repulses ugly husband's advances. He placates her by telling her that he wants a handsome child. J1541.3
• Ugly woman sees beautiful woman reflected in water and thinks it is herself. Prides herself on her beauty. J1791.6.1
• While swimming with the lizard, toad exchanges own ugly daughter for lizard's pretty one. K476.5
• Ugly disguise. K1815.2
• Handsome man substituted for ugly as bridegroom: wins bride. K1915.3
• Ugly fish borrows skin of handsome fish for courtship and marriage. K1918.1
• Queen changes her own ugly twins for slave's pretty son. Later recognizes the better character of the twins, and changes back again. K1921.3
• The girl with the ugly name. Her mother gives her a new one but the girl does not recognize it and her mother must call her by her old name. K1984.3
• Ugly women complain of falling flowers. King hearing them supposes them delicate and beautiful. K1984.4
• Ugly child becomes great poet. L112.9
• Ugly preferred to pretty sister. L145
• Ugly sister helps pretty one. L145.1
• Deity grants woman two sons, one to be wise and ugly and the other a fool and handsome. M93
• Princess kisses ugly poet while he sleeps. Kisses not the ugly face but the divine mouth. Q88.2
• Ugly picture of suitor makes girl refuse him. T11.2.0.1
• Princess calls her suitors ugly names. T76
• Man's senior wife ugly but diligent; his second, beautiful but lazy. T145.7
• Bride refuses to sleep with ugly groom. T166.1
• An ugly face does not mean an ugly soul. A noble and holy man who is very ugly is proved to be a saintly soul. U119.4
• Goose and turkey envious of peacock point out its ugly legs and voice. W195.1
• Ugly cobbler continually threatens to throw his last at people. The object of jokes. X241