In this tale type, the hero is helped by a mysterious stranger in wooing a maiden whose suitors/bridegrooms have died in mysterious circumstances in her bedchamber, and the exorcising of the evil spirits that possessed her. This type may also be known as "The Poisoned Maiden" or "The Dangerous Bride" (the killer monster in the nuptial chamber). Ī related subtype to this cycle is AaTh 506**, wherein the grateful dead character is a saint whose image was preserved by the hero. The name refers to a literary tale, Histoire de Jean de Calais, penned in 1723 by Mme. In French academia, the archetype of the Grateful Dead is known as Jean de Calais, which is also the French name for type 506A. The main difference between both stories is that in subtype 506A, the princess is rescued from slavery, while in 506B, she is saved from a den of robbers. Both subtypes were essentially the same: the princess is saved from whatever peril she was in her saviour (the true hero) is thrown overboard and left to die in the ocean the grateful dead rescues the hero and takes him to the princess's kingdom, where he uses a ring as his token of recognition, and the grateful dead suggests they divide the reward (even the princess herself). Thompson divided this type into two categories: 506A, "The Princess Rescued from Slavery", and 506B, "The Princess Rescued from Robbers". German folklorist Hans-Jörg Uther, in his 2004 revision of the Aarne-Thompson system, subsumed types 506, 506A, 506B, 506** and 508 under only one type, ATU 505, "The Grateful Dead". įolkloristic scholarship classify ATU types 505-508 under the umbrella term The Grateful Dead, each subtype referring to a certain aspect of the legend: ATU 505: Grateful Dead Īs described by Stith Thompson, all tale types begin when the hero pays the creditors of a dead man, and later he meets a man in his travels who agrees to help him, as long as they divide in half whatever reward they may gain. The "grateful dead" story is Aarne–Thompson–Uther type 505. 1.4 AaTh 508: The Bride Won in a Tournament.
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