Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.)

Motif

Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.)

Sex. · Love. · Tragic love. · view the constellation · filed as T85.4

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

general *Hibbard 266.

Within the index

Filed under Woman mourns dead lover.

1 finer motif beneath it

Ring of Fastrada. (Tove's magic ring.) Lover keeps body of dead mistress (wife) intact by means of magic ring. When ring is removed from her finger, the body immediately decays and he is cured of his love

Filed beside it

Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it Princess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminder The Pot of Basil. Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-pot

Travels with

Spouse's corpse kept after death

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