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- Stygian river. River in lower world. In Greek myth five such rivers in Hades, Styx (hate), Acheron (mourning), Kokytus (lamentation), Lethe (forgetfulness) and Pyrephlegethon (flame). A672
- Eclipses when sun smears his face on account of mourning. A737.8
- Swallows put on mourning at crucifixion: have never taken it off. A2221.2.4.1
- Green pigeon cheated out of its chick: is always mourning. A2275.4.1
- Tabus concerned with mourning. C898
- Magic object causes mourning. D1359.2
- Magic music causes mourning. (Cf. 1275.1.) D1359.2.1
- Forgetfulness by mourning. D2004.8
- Fairy music causes mourning. F262.3.5
- Sun, moon, and stars do not shine seven days, mourning Adam's death. F961.0.3.1
- Man keeps to his bed, mourning over drowned son. F1041.9.1.1
- King keeps to his bed, mourning over vanished bride. F1041.9.1.2
- Miraculously loud noise of mourning for hero. F1051.2
- Bride's constancy tested by seven year's mourning over supposed dead lover. H387.1
- King: What is your sister doing? Youth: She is mourning last year's laughter. (Nurses child, the fruit of last year's love affair.) H583.5
- Why the black clothes. A man goes forth in black clothes. People are curious as to the reason. "I am wearing mourning for the father of my son." J1304
- Hens in mourning. Fool puts black clothes on his hen's necks. He tells people that they mourn their mother. J1886
- The man who wanted to be dead one day. A husband tells his wife that he has provisions for every day in the year but one. He proposes to play dead for that one day, thinking that the servants will be overcome with grief and cannot eat. After brief mourning, however, they eat more than usual. The man then thinks to frighten them by rising from the dead. One servant thinking the dead man suffering from devils kills him. J2188
- The house without food or drink. A fool and his son meet women mourning a dead man. "He goes to the place where there is darkness and nothing to eat or drink." The son: "They must be coming to our house." J2483
- King sits mourning on his wife's grave mound. P27.1