The Pot of Basil. Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-pot

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The Pot of Basil. Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-pot.

Sex. · Love. · Tragic love. · view the constellation · filed as T85.3

Scholars’ trail — 3references

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.

Italian NovellaRotunda.
general *Belden PMLA XXXIII 327ff.
general Boccaccio Decameron IV No. 5 (Lee 136)

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Filed under Woman mourns dead lover.

Filed beside it

Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.)

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