Disappointed lover turns hermit. (Cf. V472.)

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Disappointed lover turns hermit. (Cf. V472.)

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

Scholars’ trail — 2references

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.
general Heptameron No. 64, 19

Within the index

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

Clerical vows because of disappointment in love Man becomes hermit when he realizes selfishness of his beloved's love. (Cf. T93.2.)

wander