Illness from excessive grief — Mythoi

Motif

Illness from excessive grief.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1041.21.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 7

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Reactions to excessive grief. (Cf. F1041.1.1.)

1 finer motif beneath it

Tears of blood from excessive grief

Filed beside it

Man swells from excessive grief Refusal to eat from excessive grief Man cries at hearing of friend's death Man senseless from grief at hearing of father's death; one doesn't feel that he cuts himself with his knife, the other presses dice so that he bleeds Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief Swooning from grief

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