μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Hero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress.

Sex. · Love. · Tragic love. · view the constellation · filed as T83

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda
  • Greek Fox 202.
  • general *Von der Hagen I cxxviii
  • general *Fb "svömme" III 695b
Within the index

Filed under Tragic love.

1 finer motif beneath it
Girl drowns as she swims to see her lover. Her brothers deceive her with false signal light
Filed beside it
Death from love Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress Lovers treacherously separated Woman mourns dead lover Lovers buried in same grave Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms Tragic love – miscellaneous motifs
Carried in tale types

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