Scorned lover kills successful one — Mythoi

Motif

Scorned lover kills successful one.

Sex. · Love. · The scorned lover. · view the constellation · filed as T75.2

Filed across the traditions

Italian Novella *Rotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Man scorned by his beloved.

1 finer motif beneath it

Rejected suitors' revenge

Filed beside it

Suitors ill-treated Mortal woman rejects deity for human lover Scorn of unloved suitor punished Unrequited love expressed in song (poem) Lady humiliates lover after he leaves wife for her Scorned lover becomes an anchorite. (Cf. T330.) Divine hand catches scorned lover as he plunges from minaret top to die

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