μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 4references

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.

  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • Italian NovellaRotunda
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Ekoi)Talbot 357.
Within the index

Filed under The scorned lover.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Suitors ill-treatedMortal woman rejects deity for human loverScorn of unloved suitor punishedScorned lover kills successful oneUnrequited love expressed in song (poem)Lady humiliates lover after he leaves wife for herScorned lover becomes an anchorite. (Cf. T330.)Divine hand catches scorned lover as he plunges from minaret top to die
Filed beside it
Women scorned in loveWoman won and then scornedPrincess 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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