The constellation
T83 Hero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Tragic love · T80 entry
beneath it
carried in tale type
- Hero and Leander · ATU 666*
filed beside
- Death from love · T81 entry
- Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress · T82 entry
- Lovers treacherously separated · T84 entry
- Woman mourns dead lover · T85 entry
- Lovers buried in same grave · T86 entry
- Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death · T87 entry
- Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms · T88 entry
- Tragic love – miscellaneous motifs · T89 entry