Wife will not give up dead body of husband to God of Death.
Sex. · Married life. · Faithfulness in marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T211.4.2.1
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
- GreekThe Iliad, Book 22
- Greco-RomanThe Golden Asse (Metamorphoses of Apuleius), Book 2, Chapter 11
- IrishGods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland, Ch. 23CHAPTER XV. LAEGAIRE IN THE HAPPY PLAIN
- GermanicGrimm's Household Tales: With the Author's Notes, Tale 192192.— THE MASTEE-THIEF.
Scholars’ trail — 1reference
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.
- IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index
Filed under Husband's corpse kept after death.