Note 10 — Chapter IV · The Grateful Dead and The Poison Maiden.
Reading edition
In Gypsy a youth gives his last twelve piasters for the release of a corpse, which is being maltreated by Jews. The ghost of the dead man follows him and promises to get him a bride if he will share her with him. The youth consents and marries a woman whose five bridegrooms have died on the wedding night. The companion keeps watch in the chamber and cuts off the head of a dragon that comes from the bride’s mouth. Later he demands his half of the woman, and takes a sword to cut her asunder, when she screams and disgorges the dragon’s body. The ghost then explains the situation and disappears.10