Note 39 — Chapter VI · The Grateful Dead and The Water of Life or Kindred Themes.

Before proceeding to a general discussion of the means by which this theme was brought into connection with The Grateful Dead and the comparative date of the combination or series of combinations, it is necessary to examine four other versions,—those which have the form The Grateful Dead + The Ransomed Woman + The Water of Life. Like the group just treated, all of them have been summarized and discussed with reference to the prime features of the compound.39 They are Bohemian, Simrock I., Simrock III., and Simrock VII.