μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • India*Thompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under Faithfulness to marriage in death.

2 finer motifs beneath it
Wife throws herself on husband's funeral pyreWife promises to die with husband
Filed beside it
Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponedHusband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separatedSpouse's corpse kept after deathMan becomes a hermit after his wife's deathWidowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husbandGirl forced to marry before sweetheart's return is faithful to her husband. When she refuses to give her former fiancé a kiss, he falls dead. She goes to his funeral and falls dead over his bodyWife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she lovesExcessive grief at husband's or wife's death
Travels with
Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.)

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