Note 21 — Chapter IV · The Grateful Dead and The Poison Maiden.

The burial of the dead has entirely disappeared, as will be observed, though the other traits of the story show that we must regard it as of the type now under consideration. The appearance of the archangel as companion, and the plunder which they take by the way, suggest the influence of Tobit, which indeed appears as a folk-tale in the same collection.21 The conditions made by the angel are only slightly altered from the normal form, while every other feature is found intact, even to the actual division of the woman.