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Motif

Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it.

Sex. · Love. · Tragic love. · view the constellation · filed as T85.1

Cited in the index
  • general Chauvin V 153 No. 75 n. 1.
Within the index

Filed under Woman mourns dead lover.

Filed beside it
Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder The Pot of Basil. Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-pot Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.)

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