Reactions to excessive grief. (Cf. F1041.1.1.) — Mythoi

Motif

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

Marvels. · Extraordinary occurrences. · Other extraordinary events. · view the constellation · filed as F1041.21

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Filed under Extraordinary physical reactions of persons.

7 finer motifs beneath 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 Tearing hair and clothes from excessive grief Swooning from grief

Filed beside it

Neophyte shows no reaction when saint's staff pierces his foot Extraordinary death Horripilation. Hair rises on end in extraordinary fashion from joy, anger, or love Person goes blind from overweeping Person melts away from heat Poison of hydra corrodes the skin Buttons burst as consequence of violent emotion Hair turns gray from terror Extraordinary madness Extraordinary illness Man sweats blood and absorbs hair into head on exertion of strength Laughing and crying at the same time (sundry reasons given) Man perspires in winter while relating fearful vision Biting fingers to see if one is dreaming Beheaded man swims. (Cf. E783.) Inordinate longing. (Cf. D1041.1.4.)

Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)

Death from broken heart

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