Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder — Mythoi

Motif

Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder.

Sex. · Love. · Tragic love. · view the constellation · filed as T85.2

Cited in the index

general *Wesselski Mönchslatein 80 No. 69.

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Filed under Woman mourns dead lover.

Filed beside it

Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it 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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