[72] Two Asiatic parallels not cited by Hertz will serve to illustrate the theme further. One of these is "The Story of Swet-Basanta" from Lal Behari Day, Folk-tales of Bengal, 1883, pp. 100 f. The hero is found by an elephant and made king of a land, where the successive sovereigns are killed every night mysteriously. He watches and sees something like a thread coming from the queen's nostrils. This proves to be a great serpent, which he kills, thus remaining as king. The other is from J. H. Knowles, Folk-tales of Kashmir, 1888, pp. 32 ff., "A Lach of Rupees for a Bit of Advice." A prince pays a lach of rupees for a paper containing four rules of conduct. His father exiles him for this extravagance. In his wanderings the prince finds a potter alternately laughing and crying because his son must soon marry a princess, who has to be wedded anew each night. So the prince marries the woman instead and kills two serpents that come from her nostrils, thus retaining the kingdom. In these two stories there is no question of aid coming to the hero; he is saved by his own watchfulness. [73] Tobit, Danish III. (Andersen's tale), and Peele's Old Wives' Tale. [74] For example, it appears in Schischmanoff's Legendes religieuses bulgares, 1896, pp. 194-201, side by side with our Bulgarian tale. [75] I summarize from Koehler's reprint in Germania, iii. pp. 202 ff. [76] Paspati's tale on pp. 605 ff. also has a dragon slain on a wedding night by a youth, who keeps watch. This single trait in a totally different setting must be borrowed from a Gypsy form of the simple or compound theme. [77] See Annamite, Greek, Oliver, and Walewein. There is something approaching it in Rumanian I. [78] Icelandic I. [79] Simrock IV. [80] See Hippe, p. 145. [81] References to this story have been collected by G. Polivka, and printed in Archiv f. slav. Phil. xix. 251, in citing our Russian V. He says: "Vgl. Romanov, iv. S. 124, Nr. 65; Weryho, Pod. bialoruskie, S. 46; Khudyakov, i. Nr. 11, 12; Sadovnikov, S. 44, 310; Manzhura, 61; Dragomanov Mapor. Priep, S. 268 f.; Dowojna Sylwestrowicz, ii. 129 f.; Karlowicz, Nr. 19; Kolberg, viii. S. 138 f., Nr. 55, 56; xiv. S. 72 f., Nr. 16, 17; Ciszewski, i. Nr. 128; Kulda, iii. Nr. 14; Strohal, Nr. 18, 19; Kres, iv. S. 350, Nr. 19; Th. Vernaleken, Oesterr. K.H.M. S. 44 f.; Ul. Jahn, i. 92, 356; Proehle, Maerchen fuer die Jugend, S. 42; Wolf, D.H.M. 258 f.; Sebillot, Contes des marins, S. 38." As far as I have been able to ascertain, these references are all to the tale sketched above, uncompounded with The Grateful Dead. I must thank Professor Wiener for my knowledge of the Slavic forms, which he very generously examined for me as far as the books were available, viz. Romanov, Khudyakov, Sadovnikov, Manzura, Dragomanov, Sylwestrowicz, and Kolberg. [82] See Hippe, pp. 145 f. [83] For the test of friendship with an apple, see Koehler's notes in Gonzenbach, Sicil. Maerchen, ii. 259 f., and in Arch. f. slav. Phil. v. 44 ff.