A traveller spends his last coins to bury a stranger’s corpse, and the dead man’s spirit returns to help him win a bride or a fortune. Gerould follows this tale through the Book of Tobit, medieval romances and folk versions from Europe and Asia, and studies how it combined with other stories such as the Poison Maiden and the Ransomed Woman.
A classic 1908 study in comparative folklore, for scholars of the folk tale and the curious alike. Download the free EPUB.