μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
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Filed across the traditions
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Hindu Penzer II 10 n.
  • Chinese Graham.
  • general *Type 516
  • general *Rösch FFC LXXVII 98
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Filed under The symptoms of love.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Fainting away for love (or sexual desire). (Cf. F1041.1.6.1.) Swooning for fright that lover shall be killed Fainting away from seeing an extraordinary beauty
Filed beside it
Love-sickness Madness from love Woman takes on lover's deformity (while conversing with him) Boy turns red and white from love Lover refuses food and drink Waiting for twenty-two years to see a beauty Man promises to sacrifice self in order to marry beloved

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