Stith Thompson motif index · Motif

Thompson D1860 — Magic beautification

D1860
Thompson motif reference
D
Magic
3
Associated ATU tale types
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Description

Motif

Magic beautification. BP I 86ff., 99ff., 165ff., 207ff. (Gr. Nos. 11, 13, 21, 24); *Loomis White Magic 80, 82; Cox Cinderella 481 n. 12 (most of references there given).—Irish: *Cross, Beal XXI 335; Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "beauté"; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 17; Jewish: Neuman; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 527.—N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 349 n. 259, (Zuсi): Parsons JAFL XXXI 244 No. 16; Africa (Fjort): Dennett 43 No. 6, (Hottentot): Bleek 76 No. 35.—See also all references to D732 and D733.

Associated ATU tale types

Concordance

These links are derived from the Thompson motif references stored in the Folklore Database's ATU concordance.

ATUTitle
ATU 403 The White and the Black Bride
ATU 480 The Kind and the Unkind Girls
ATU 711 The Twin Sisters
Previous motif
← D1857.2 — Two hundred years of unfailing life and happiness offered to warrior by fairy woman in exchange for one day's delay of battle




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