μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • KoreanZong in-Sob 30 No. 13.
  • general Herrmann Saxo II 94
Within the index

Filed under Faithfulness in marriage.

9 finer motifs beneath 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 deathWidowed she-fox rejects suitors who do not resemble her deceased husbandGirl 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
Filed beside it
Faithful wifeFaithful husbandLoving couple die of separationHusband (wife) sickens as result of separation from spouseFaithfulness of married couple in misfortuneLoathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wifeWife refuses to become unfaithful although she knows her husband to be soWoman's naiveté proves her fidelity. Man is rebuked for having bad breath. He reproves his wife for never having told him. "I thought that men liked it as I did." He realizes that his wife has not known any other manWife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistressHusband tempted by own wife disguised in fine clothes: says he will touch no woman save his wife. She puts on her old clothes

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