Girl kills herself after lover's death — Mythoi

Motif

Girl kills herself after lover's death.

Sex. · Love. · Tragic love. · view the constellation · filed as T81.6

Filed across the traditions

Icelandic *Boberg
India *Thompson-Balys.
general Herrmann Saxo II 94

Within the index

Filed under Death from love.

Filed beside it

Man dies at bedside of dying sweetheart Death from unrequited love Girl falls dead on lover's body Man dies when the bride who had been denied him kisses him Sick lover dies from exertion of embracing beloved Woman dies on hearing of lover's or husband's death. (Cf. T211.9.1.) Wife swallows hot coal and dies because her husband is unfaithful

Carried in tale types

Pyramus and Thisbe · ATU 899A 1 recorded variant

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