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

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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

Filed across the traditions

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

Within the index

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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