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Motif
Filed across the traditions
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • India *Thompson-Balys
  • Africa (Ekoi) Talbot 357.
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Filed under The scorned lover.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Suitors ill-treated Mortal woman rejects deity for human lover Scorn of unloved suitor punished Scorned lover kills successful one 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
Filed beside it
Women scorned in love Woman won and then scorned Princess calls her suitors ugly names Maid vexes suitor by pretense. Noble maid who is to marry knight pretends to be beggar's daughter

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