Were it necessary to justify such studies as the present, one might add that, apart from helping to the settlement of such more general questions as those just mentioned, they throw light on the sources of particular literary works, better than does the haphazard search for parallels, and they often enable the student to see the relations between the literatures of neighbouring countries more clearly than he would be able to do without the perspective gained by a comparative consideration of a single theme in many lands. In ways like these the author hopes that this history of The Grateful Dead may be serviceable. THE END. NOTES [1] 1856. [2] Guter Gerhard, as will be seen later, does not follow the theme at all. [3] P. 114. [4] 1859, i. 219-221. [5] Ghost-Thanks or The Grateful Unburied, A Mythic Tale in its Oldest European Form, Sir Amadace, 1860. [6] P. 9. [7] P. 7. [8] Germania, iii. 199-210, xii. 55 ff.; Or. u. Occ. ii. 322-329, iii. 93-103; Arch. f. slav. Phil. ii. 631-634, v. 40 ff.; Gonzenbach, Sicilianische Maerchen, 1870, ii. 248-250. [9] Heidelberger Jahrbuecher der Lit. 1868, lxi. 449-452, 1872, lxv. 894 f.; Germania, xxiv. 132 f. [10] P. 449. [11] Altbayerischer Sagenschatz zur Bereicherung der indogermanischen Mythologie, 1876, pp. 678-689. [12] Contes populaires de Lorraine, i. 214, 215. [13] Archiv f. d. Stud. d. neueren Sprachen, lxxxi. 141-183. [14] P. 167. "Ein Juengling zeigt sich menschenfreundlich gegen die Leiche eines Unbekannten (indem er dieselbe vor Schimpf bewahrt, bestattet, etc.). Der Geist des Toten gesellt sich darauf zu ihm und erweist sich ihm dankbar, indem er ihm zu Reichtum und zum Besitze des von ihm zur Frau begehrten Maedchens verhilft, jedoch unter der Bedingung, dass er dereinst alles durch ihn Gewonnene mit ihm teile. Der Juengling geht auf diesen Vertrag ein, und der Geist stellt sich nach einer gewissen Zeit wieder ein, um das Versprochene entgegenzunehmen, verlangt aber nicht die Haelfte des gewonnene Gutes, sondern die der Frau. (Schluss variabel.)" [15] See p. x. above. [16] P. 180. [17] See his scheme on p. 181. [18] Der Dank des Todten in der englischen Literatur, Jahresbericht der Staats-Oberrealschule in Troppau, 1894. [19] Marburg diss. 1894, pp. 43-63. [20] Folk-Lore, ix. 226-244 (1898). [21] I have to thank the kindness of Professor Leo Wiener for my knowledge of the content of Russian V. and VI., which he was good enough to translate for me from the dialect of White Russia. [22] What the two Bohemian variants contain, which are mentioned by Benfey, Pantschatantra, i. 221, note, by Stephens, p. 10, by Koehler, Germania, iii. 199-209, and Or. und Occ. ii. 328, note, and by Hippe, p. 146, I have been unable to ascertain. [23] On pp. 194-201 is found a curious "Echo de l'histoire de Tobie." [24] Hippe's first Lithuanian tale is a variant of The Water of Life and will be treated in another connection.