Lover commits suicide on finding beloved dead — Mythoi

Motif

Lover commits suicide on finding beloved dead.

Chance and fate. · Unlucky accidents. · Hasty killing or condemnation (mistake). · view the constellation · filed as N343.4

Cited in the index

general Heptameron No. 70.

Within the index

Filed under Lover kills self believing his mistress dead. She has been frightened away by a lion. (Pyramus and Thisbe.)

Filed beside it

Mistress kills self, believing her lover dead Wife dies, believing husband dead Woman feigns death to meet exiled lover. It leads to his death. Lover hears of her supposed death, returns and submits to execution

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