Pallas Athena, harboring kindness for the hero,
drifted a heavy mist around him, shielding him
from any swaggering islander who’d cross his path
provoke him with taunts and search out who he was.
Instead, as he was about to enter the welcome city,
the bright-eyed goddess herself came up to greet him there,
for all the world like a young girl, holding a pitcher,
standing face-to-face with the visitor.
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 7, lines 16-23. While Odysseus is on his way to the palace of Alcinous, Athena disguises him with a magical mist to keep him safe from the Phaeacians. As he is about to enter the city, the goddess appears before him in the form of a girl carrying a pitcher, to help him further.