The tale of the young girl disguised or hidden under the skin of an animal is found notably in Basile (“L’Orza”, 1637), Perrault (“Peau-d’âne”, 1694), D’Aulnoy (“La Biche au bois”, 1698), Grimm (“Allerleirauh”, 1819) and Afanassiev (“Свиной чехол”, Ukrainian version, 1863). The motif combines a double violence: threatened by an incestuous rape, the girl, assumes a substitute crime by demanding the animal’s sacrifice. By appropriating a non-human skin, the young girl assumes a wild, primordial animal identity, even to the point of taking on its name. Her hybridity confers on her the strength of the animal, but its skin relegates her to the bangs of humanity. She must go through a symbolic death, marked by social degradation, in order to achieve her final empowerment: having fled the patriarchal realm of her abusive father, the heroine eventually gains a matriarchal domain.