Girl remains a virgin after both her suitors are killed in battle — Mythoi

Motif

Girl remains a virgin after both her suitors are killed in battle.

Sex. · Chastity and celibacy. · Celibacy and continence. · view the constellation · filed as T311.3

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Woman averse to marriage. (Cf. T321.1, T327.3.)

Filed beside it

Woman's aversion to marriage motivated through a dream Flight of maiden (bridegroom) to escape marriage Woman prefers to remain chaste rather than keep an impotent husband. (Cf. T271.1.) Maiden queen prefers to fight instead of marrying, but is at last conquered and married

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