The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story — John Shaqi
The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk StoryGerould, Gordon Hall
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The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story
Gerould, Gordon Hall
Dead -- Folklore; Folk literature -- Themes, motives; Grateful dead (Tale)
D'Ancona, Romania, iii. 192, mentions the popular poem Istoria
bellissima di Stellante Costantina figliuola del gran turco, la
quale fu rubata da certi cristiani che teneva in corte suo padre e fu
venduta a un mercante di Vicenza presso Salerno, con molti intervalli
e successi, composta da Giovanni Orazio Brunetto. I have not been able
to find this poem and do not know how closely it accords with Dianese.
Straparola I.
Notti piacevoli, notte xi, favola 2. Analyzed by Grimm, Kinder-
und Hausmaerchen, 1856, iii, 289; and rather too briefly by Simrock,
pp. 98-100, and Hippe, p. 153. See Benfey, Pant. i. 221, Koehler in
Gonzenbach, Sicil. Maerchen, ii. 249, and Groome, Tobit and Jack,
Folk-Lore, ix. 226 f., and Gypsy Folk-Tales, p. 3, note.
Straparola II.
Notti piacevoli, notte v, favola 1. See Benfey, Pant. ii. 532.
Tuscan.
G. Nerucci, Sessanta novelle popolari, 1880, pp. 430-437, no. lii. A
folk-tale from the neighbourhood of Pistoia. See Webster, Basque
Legends, pp. 182-187, Crane, Italian Popular Tales, p. 350, and
Cosquin, Contes populaires, i. 215.
Istrian.
Ive, Novelline popolari rovignesi, 1877, p. 19. See d'Ancona, Studj di
critica, 1880, p. 354, and the summary by Crane, Italian Popular Tales,
1885, no. xxxv. pp. 131-136, from whom, as Ive's collection has been
inaccessible to me, I derive my knowledge of the story. Crane gives
the title of Ive as Fiabe, etc., d'Ancona as above.
Venetian.
G. Bernoni, Tradizioni populari veneziane, 1875, pp. 89-96. Referred
to by Crane, Italian Popular Tales, p. 350.
Sicilian.
Laura Gonzenbach, Sicilianische Maerchen, 1870, ii. 96-103. Summarized
briefly by Hippe, pp. 153 f., and by Groome, Folk-Lore, ix. 239 f.
Brazilian.
Romero and Braga, Contos populares do Brazil, 1885, no. x. pp. 215. See
Cosquin, Contes populaires, i. 215.
Basque I.
Wentworth Webster, Basque Legends, 1877, pp. 182-187. See Cosquin,
Contes populaires, i. 215, and Luzel, Legendes chretiennes, p. 90,
note.
Basque II.
Webster, work cited, pp. 146-150. See Crane, Italian Popular Tales,
p. 351.
Gaelic.
Campbell, Popular Tales of the West Highlands, new ed. 1890,
ii. 121-140, no. 32, "The Barra Widow's Son." Summarized by Koehler,
Or. und Occ. ii. 322 f., by Sepp, p. 685, by Hippe, p. 150, and by
Groome, Folk-Lore, ix. 235. See Koehler in Gonzenbach, Sicil. Maerchen,
ii. 249, and Groome, Gypsy Folk-Tales, p. 3, note.
Irish I.
W. Larminie, West Irish Folk-Tales and Romances, 1893, pp. 155-167,
"Beauty of the World." Mentioned by Kittredge, Harvard Notes and
Studies, viii. 250, note.
Irish II.
Douglas Hyde, Beside the Fire. A Collection of Irish Gaelic
Folk-Stories, 1890, pp. 18-47, "The King of Ireland's Son." [34]
Mentioned by Kittredge, place cited.
Irish III.
P. Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, 1866, pp. 32-38,
"Jack the Master and Jack the Servant."
Breton I.
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