μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Scholars’ trail — 5references

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
  • Jewish*Neuman
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 69, 209 No. 157.
  • general *Penzer II 8, 9 n. 2, 10, V 39, VII 69 n. 1, 103, 258, VIII 98
Within the index

Filed under Tragic love.

8 finer motifs beneath it
Man dies at bedside of dying sweetheartDeath from unrequited loveGirl falls dead on lover's bodyMan dies when the bride who had been denied him kisses himSick lover dies from exertion of embracing belovedGirl kills herself after lover's deathWoman 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
Filed beside it
Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empressHero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistressLovers treacherously separatedWoman mourns dead loverLovers buried in same graveLovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to deathWoman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his armsTragic love – miscellaneous motifs
Travels with
Dying lover sends his sweetheart his ring. (Cf. T81.)

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