The constellation
T211 Faithfulness to marriage in death
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- Faithfulness in marriage · T210 entry
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- Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponed · T211.1 entry
- Wife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.) · T211.2 entry
- Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separated · T211.3 entry
- Spouse's corpse kept after death · T211.4 entry
- Man becomes a hermit after his wife's death · T211.5 entry
- Widowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husband · T211.6 entry
- Girl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his body · T211.7 entry
- Wife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she loves · T211.8 entry
- Excessive grief at husband's or wife's death · T211.9 entry