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- Why partridge has pretty feet. Exchanged with peacock. (Also told of jay and flamingo.) (Cf. A2241.) A2375.2.1
- Stepson cursed to stick in grave mound till pretty girl wants to substitute for him. D5.1.1
- Fairies have a pretty room in hill. F221.3
- Fairy as a small pretty girl with blond hair. F232.4.1
- Remarkably pretty white feet. F551.3
- Remarkably pretty white hands. F552.3
- Witch wishes to have as pretty teeth as man: drinks boiling oil. G525.1
- Better send an ugly woman to the devil than a pretty one. Man chooses ugly mistress. J229.4
- The flatterer's retort. Two men meet a homely girl. One of them: "Who wouldn't call that girl pretty?" The girl overhears and says, "No one would say it of you." The man: "Anyone might say it who would lie as I have lied about you." J1356
- Husband mistaken for lover in bed. Farmer has whiskers shaved off, hair cut short. He gets home late, slips into bed with his wife. She runs her hand over his face, says: "Young man, if you're goin' to do anything, you'd better be agittin' at it, 'cause Old Whiskers'll be here pretty soon." J1485.1
- Logically absurd defenses. Thief brought to judgment for breaking into house blames mason for building poor house. Mason blames maker of mortar, who blames potter, who blames pretty woman who diverted his attention. She blames goldsmith who caused her to go for her earrings. Goldsmith has no one to blame but he is too old to make a good execution. Hence a shopkeeper across the way is convicted. J2233
- While swimming with the lizard, toad exchanges own ugly daughter for lizard's pretty one. K476.5
- 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
- Ugly preferred to pretty sister. L145
- Ugly sister helps pretty one. L145.1