μῦθοι Mythoi
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Filed under Tragic love.

4 finer motifs beneath 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 Lover's body kept embalmed for years by grieving mistress. (Cf. T211.4.)
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Death from love Bath of blood of beloved to cure love-sick empress Hero and Leander. Lover drowned as he swims to see his mistress Lovers treacherously separated Lovers buried in same grave Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death Woman stricken by plague and forsaken by her husband is sought out by unsuccessful lover and dies in his arms Tragic love – miscellaneous motifs

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