μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • general *Type 65
  • general BP I 362
  • general *Taylor JAFL XLVI 78
  • general Fb "ræv" III 113b.
Within the index

Filed under Faithfulness to marriage in death.

Filed beside it
Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponedWife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.)Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separatedSpouse's corpse kept after deathMan becomes a hermit after his wife's deathGirl 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
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