μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 3references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • Italian Novella*Rotunda
  • IndiaThompson-Balys.
Within the index

Filed under The scorned lover.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Maid eloping with pretended lover is forced by him to stripNobleman marries poor girl and then abandons herWoman sets out to kill man who has won and then scorned her. Ruler brings about their reconciliationWoman entertains two lovers on alternate nights. They expose the deception and scorn her in public
Filed beside it
Women scorned in loveMan scorned by his belovedPrincess calls her suitors ugly namesMaid vexes suitor by pretense. Noble maid who is to marry knight pretends to be beggar's daughter

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