Excessive grief at husband's or wife's death — Mythoi

Motif

Excessive grief at husband's or wife's death.

Sex. · Married life. · Faithfulness in marriage. · view the constellation · filed as T211.9

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg.

Within the index

Filed under Faithfulness to marriage in death.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Wife dies of grief for death of husband. (Cf. T81.7.) Man kills self in grief for wife

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 Wife unwilling to deceive her husband for the man she loves

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