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- Matron of Ephesus. (Vidua.) A woman mourns night and day by her husband's grave. A knight guarding a hanged man is about to lose his life because of the corpse he has stolen from the gallows. The matron offers him her love and substitutes her husband's corpse on the gallows so that the knight can escape. K2213.1
- King mourns so much at wife's death that he goes on piracy, (every summer afterward). P27.2
- Stepmother mourns her stepsons' death, not her own son's. P282.2
- Woman mourns dead lover. T85
- Woman thinking lover dead erects cenotaph and mourns before it. T85.1