μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Tragic love.

4 finer motifs beneath it
Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before itPrincess hangs up weapons of dead lover as continual reminderThe Pot of Basil. Mistress keeps murdered lover's skull in flower-potLover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.)
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Death from loveBath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empressHero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistressLovers treacherously separatedLovers buried in same graveLovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to deathWoman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his armsTragic love – miscellaneous motifs

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