ATU 8 False Beauty Treatment (previously 'Painting' on the Haycock)

ATU 8

False Beauty Treatment (previously 'Painting' on the Haycock)

Aarne–Thompson–Uther tale-type index · Animal Tales · The full type description is not served here; the number and name are the classification facts, and the motifs below are the doors onward.

Motifs the recorded variants carry

Why opossum has bare tail. 1 variant
False beauty-doctor. The trickster pretends to make the dupe beautiful. Injures him. 1 variant
"Painting" on the haycock. The fox persuades the wolf to lie on the hay in order to be painted. He sets fire to it. 1 variant

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.