Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death

Motif

Lovers forbidden to marry starve themselves to death.

Sex. · Love. · Tragic love. · view the constellation · filed as T87

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.

Italian NovellaRotunda.

Within the index

Filed under Tragic love.

Filed beside it

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 Woman mourns dead lover Lovers buried in same grave 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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