Note 18 — Chapter IV · The Grateful Dead and The Poison Maiden.

Hippe is in error, however, when he says (p. 178) that the division is everywhere modified in the European variants. See Russian II., IV., V. and VI., Bulgarian, and Esthonian II. Moreover, I believe that Hippe’s theory puts the cart before the horse—that the actual division is not so ancient a trait as it seems. See pp. 74, 75 below.