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Motif

Disappointed lover turns hermit. (Cf. V472.)

Sex. · Love. · Love – miscellaneous motifs. · view the constellation · filed as T93.2

Filed across the traditions
  • Italian Novella Rotunda.
  • general Heptameron No. 64, 19
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Filed under Fate of disappointed lover.

1 finer motif beneath it
Lover becomes friar and sweetheart nun when unable to marry
Filed beside it
Disappointed lover becomes a wild man in the woods. (Cf. F567.) 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.)
Clerical vows because of disappointment in love Man becomes hermit when he realizes selfishness of his beloved's love. (Cf. T93.2.)

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