μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Wife throws herself on husband's funeral pyre.

Sex. · Married life. · Faithfulness in marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T211.2.1

Filed across the traditions
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Filed under Wife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.)

1 finer motif beneath it
Wife prefers to be burned together with husband even though she was forced to marry him and she has helped to prepare the revenge
Filed beside it
Wife promises to die with husband
Keeps company with — shares receipted episodes
Land made magically sterile. (Cf. D1563.) Innocent woman accused of murder Matricide punished Burial alive as punishment for disobedience to king. (Cf. Q325.) Sacrifice: olive branch laid on altar of Mercy

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