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The loathly lady (Motif D732 in Stith Thompson's motif index), is a tale type commonly used in medieval literature, most famously in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale. The motif is that of a woman who appears unattractive (ugly, loathly) but undergoes a transformation upon being approached by a man in spite of her unattractiveness, becoming extremely desirable. It is then revealed that her ugliness was the result of a curse which was broken by the hero's action.

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  1. Gienna Matson．Celtic Mythology A to Z．New York：Chelsea House，2004：P.75
  2. McDougall, Sara (2013). "Women and Gender in Canon Law". in Judith Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras. Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 163–178. ISBN 978-0-19-958217-4. 
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