Motif
widowed or bereaved vow not to remarry
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A motif of the Curse, Blessing, and Performative Sacred Speech family, within the sub-family Fidelity, Obedience, and Secrecy Vows. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
celtic irish
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The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge XVIII / HERE NOW IS TOLD THE MISTHROW AT BELACH EOIN. / HERE NOW FOLLOWETH THE DISGUISING OF TAMON / HERE NOW COMETH THE HEAD-PLACE OF FERCHU; lines 12332-12386 confidence: medium
A woman is described as wandering through mist; the living may find a man, but the speaker vows never to take or sleep with a man.
The speaker declares that she will never take a man and never sleep with a man after the death she laments.
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