Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief

Motif

Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief.

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1041.21.6

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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India*Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it

Wounding self because of excessive grief Bird in great grief tears out feathers

Filed beside it

Illness from excessive grief 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 Swooning from grief

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