μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Wife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she loves.

Sex. · Married life. · Faithfulness in marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T211.8

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic Boberg.
Within the index

Filed under Faithfulness to marriage in death.

Filed beside it
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 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 Excessive grief at husband's or wife's death

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