Communication of lovers — Mythoi

Motif

Communication of lovers.

Sex. · Love. · Lovers' meeting. · view the constellation · filed as T41

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Literary CrystallizationMasnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged), Book 6, Story 7
Depth CommentaryPsychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido, Part I — CHAPTER I
Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 8
Literary CrystallizationParadise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Book 8

Within the index

Filed under Lovers' meeting.

3 finer motifs beneath it

Communication of lovers through hole in wall Communication of lovers through hole in floor Lovers' signal. Informs lover when he must come

Filed beside it

Lovers' meeting: hero in service of heroine. As page, or the like Lovers' meeting: heroine heals hero's wounds. (Cf. T67.2.)Man transformed to animal kept as pet by heroine. (Cf. D658.)Lovers meet at social gathering Lovers' rendezvous. (Cf. R315.1.)Girl sleeps in garden to meet lover. Discovered next morning and married Lover finds lady in tomb apparently dead. She revives and marries him Conversation of lovers Lover buys admission to woman's room Suitor outwits watchman to meet lady Heroine hidden by stepmother when suitor comes