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)
A. von Haxthausen, Transkaukasia, 1856, i. 333 f. A modern
folk-tale. Reprinted entire by Benfey, Pantschatantra, i. 219,
note, and by Koehler, Germania, iii. 202 f. A somewhat inadequate
summary is given by Hippe, p. 143; a better one is found in
Arch. f. slav. Phil. v. 43, by Koehler, who mentioned the tale again
in Or. und Occ. ii. 328, and iii. 96. Summarized also by Sepp, p. 681,
Groome, Folk-Lore, ix. 228 f., and mentioned by Wilhelmi, p.45.
Jewish.
Reischer, Schaare Jeruschalajim, 1880, pp. 86-99. Summarized by
Gaster, Germania, xxvi. 200-202, and from him by Hippe, pp. 143,
144. A modern folk-tale from Palestine.
Annamite.
Landes, Contes et legendes annamites, 1886, pp. 162, 163, "La
reconnaissance de l'etudiant mort." A modern folk-tale.
Siberian.
Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der tuerkischen
Staemme Sued-Siberiens, 1866, i. 329-331. See Koehler,
Arch. f. slav. Phil. v. 43, note.
Simonides.
Cicero, De Divinatione, i. 27, referred to again in ii. 65 and
66. Retold by Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta, i. 7; after him by
Robert Holkot, Super Libros Sapientiae, Lectio 103; and again by
Chaucer in the Nun's Priest's Tale, Cant. Tales, B, 4257-4294. For
the relationship of Chaucer's anecdote to those in Latin see Skeat,
note in his edition, Lounsbury, Studies in Chaucer, 1892, ii. 274,
and Petersen, On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale, 1898,
pp. 106-117. Connected with The Grateful Dead by Freudenberg in a
review of Simrock in Jahrbuecher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im
Rheinlande, xxv. 172. See also Koehler, Germania iii. 209, Liebrecht in
Heidelberger Jahrbuecher der Lit. lxi. 449, 450, and Sepp. p. 680. Not
treated by Hippe.
Gypsy.
A. G. Paspati, Etudes sur les Tchinghianes ou Bohemiens de
l'Empire Ottoman, 1870, pp. 601-605, Translated from Paspati by
F. H. Groome, Gypsy Folk-Tales, 1899, pp. 1-3. Summarized by Koehler,
Arch. f. slav. Phil. v. 43 and carelessly by Hippe, p. 143. This
tale was heard near Adrianople. Cited by Foerster, Richars li Biaus,
p. xxviii, and by Wilhelmi, p. 45.
Greek.
J. G. von Hahn, Griechische und albanesische Maerchen, 1864, no. 53,
pp. 288-295, "Belohnte Treue." Summarized in part by Hippe, p. 149. See
also Liebrecht, Heid. Jahrbuecher, lxi. 451, and by Groome, Folk-Lore,
ix. 243. This tale was found in northern Euboea.
Maltese.
Hans Stumme, Maltesische Maerchen, Gedichte und Raetsel, 1904, no. 12,
pp. 39-45.
Russian I.
Afansjew, Russische Volksmaerchen, Heft 6, p. 323 f. Analyzed by
Schiefner, Or. und Occ. ii. 174, 175, and after him by Hippe, p. 144,
with some omissions. See Koehler, Or. und Occ. iii. 93-103, and Sepp,
p. 684.
Russian II.
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