Motif
Prolonged mourning without relief leading to physical collapse/death
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A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Death from Grief. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
persian
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Persian Literature, Volume 1 THE SEVEN LABORS OF RUSTEM / INVASION OF IRN BY AFRSIYB / THE RETURN OF KAI-KS / STORY OF SOHRB; lines 7091-7112 confidence: high
The woman is choked by emotion and seems near death; matrons gather around her mourning with piercing cries until she revives.
She mourns day and night “disdaining all relief,” and is eventually “worn out” and dies.
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