Girl 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 body

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Girl 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 body.

Sex. · Married life. · Faithfulness in marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T211.7

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Italian Novella*Rotunda.

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Filed under Faithfulness to marriage in death.

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Wife dies so that husband's death may be postponed Wife's suicide at husband's death. (Cf. T81.7.)Husband and wife kill themselves so as not to be separated Spouse's corpse kept after death Man becomes a hermit after his wife's death Widowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husband Wife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she loves Excessive grief at husband's or wife's death

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