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Motif

Disappointed lover becomes a wild man in the woods. (Cf. F567.)

Sex. · Love. · Love – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T93.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Irish myth *Cross
  • Italian Novella *Rotunda.
  • general *Dickson 116 n. 44
Within the index

Filed under Fate of disappointed lover.

Filed beside it
Disappointed lover turns hermit. (Cf. V472.) Disappointed lover kills self Disappointed lover buys poison for girl. Druggist substitutes sleeping potion. Girl revives and is reconciled Tragic love between a Pari and a mortal man; they never meet again, but continually roam the earth seeking each other
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Wild man. Man lives alone in wood like a beast

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