ATU 711 The Beautiful and the Ugly Twinsisters

ATU 711

The Beautiful and the Ugly Twinsisters

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Other Tales Of The Supernatural · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Ugly sister helps pretty one. 4 variants
Child born with animal head. 4 variants
Tabus during pregnancy. 2 variants
Loathly Lady. Man disenchants loathsome woman by embracing her. 2 variants
Magic beautification. 2 variants
Magic rites for obtaining a child. 2 variants

Type numbers and names after Aarne–Thompson–Uther, via Hagedorn, trilogy (2022), CC-BY-NC-SA; motif links weighted by the dataset’s recorded tale variants. Served as classification facts with attribution.