Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa

The character Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa appears as a tale-figure in modern collections of Greek folktales; the story is recorded in Georgios A. Megas's Folktales of Greece and is attested in other collectors' variants (Michalis Meraklis, Anna Angelopoulou). Contemporary commentary and comparative folklore sources place the tale within the wider Rapunzel or "maiden-in-the-tower" narrative cycle rather than as a mythic ancestor or ritual figure; the available sources are bibliographic and comparative rather than providing a full traditional text in the supplied material.

The tale title and modern summaries emphasize Anthousa's fairness and golden/blond hair—the English subtitle in the chief modern reference calls her "the Fair with Golden Hair." The compound name itself functions as descriptive epithets (Anthousa as a Greek female name; Xanthousa indicating blond/yellow; Chrisomalousa indicating gold). The provided sources do not include a fuller physical description (clothing, stature, or other distinguishing marks) from the tale text.

Collected sources do not ascribe supernatural powers to Anthousa. She functions narratively as a fairy-tale maiden protagonist associated with motifs common to Rapunzel-type tales (confinement and rescue, and in secondary commentary the motif of hair used as a means of access). No magical agency, spells, or independent supernatural behaviors are documented in the cited material; her role is that of a human tale-figure within oral and collected storytelling.