μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Faithfulness to marriage in death.

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

Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Korean Zong 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 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 Excessive grief at husband's or wife's death
Filed beside it
Faithful wife Faithful husband Loving couple die of separation Husband (wife) sickens as result of separation from spouse Faithfulness of married couple in misfortune Loathly bridegroom carried on back in basket by wife Wife refuses to become unfaithful although she knows her husband to be so Woman'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 man Wife hides husband's unfaithfulness from emperor and even shelters his mistress Husband 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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