Conversation of lovers — Mythoi

Motif

Conversation of lovers.

Sex. · Love. · Lovers' meeting. · view the constellation · filed as T42

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Middle EasternThe Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Chapter 5
Greco-RomanThe Golden Asse (Metamorphoses of Apuleius), Book 8, Chapter 32
IrishOld Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic, Tale 4CONNLA OF THE GOLDEN HAIR, AND THE FAIRY MAIDEN.
Literary CrystallizationThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Chapter 14XIV. THE FRIEND.

Within the index

Filed under Lovers' meeting.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Unacquainted lovers converse in sign language Lovers converse in figures of speech not understood by others

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 Communication of lovers Lover buys admission to woman's room Suitor outwits watchman to meet lady Heroine hidden by stepmother when suitor comes