ATU 365 The Dead Bridegroom Carries Off his Bride
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The tale in brief
A dead bridegroom comes back for his bride and carries her off at night, saying that the moon shines bright and the dead ride fast.
Summary written for RunoVerse from Antti Aarne’s list of tale types of 1910 and the Finnic texts linked on this page.
Runosong types
The SKVR or ERAB type index cites this tale type in its description of these song types:
- Kuu paistaa, kuollut ajaa The moon shines, the dead one rides · SKVR · 9 poems
Finnic and Finland-Swedish sources cited in the catalogue
The entries of the catalogue’s list of literature and variants that concern Finnic tradition.
Finnish Rausmaa 1982ff. I, 482, Jauhiainen 1998, No. C501
Finnish-Swedish Hackman 1917f. I, No. 68
Estonian Aarne 1918
Livonian Loorits 1926
Lydian Kecskeméti/Paunonen 1974
Full references:
- Rausmaa 1982ff.: Rausmaa, Pirkko-Liisa (ed.): Suomalaiset kansansadut 1–6. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1982–2000.
- Jauhiainen 1998: Jauhiainen, Marjatta: The Type and Motif Index of Finnish Belief Legends and Memorates. FF Communications 267. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1998.
- Hackman 1917f.: Hackman, Oskar (ed.): Finlands svenska folkdiktning I A: Sagor. Referatsamling 1–2. Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, 1917–1920. Read online ↗ (National Library of Finland)
- Aarne 1918: Aarne, Antti: Estnische Märchen- und Sagenvarianten. Verzeichnis der zu den Hurt'schen Handschriftensammlungen gehörenden Aufzeichnungen. FF Communications 25. Hamina: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1918.
- Loorits 1926: Loorits, Oskar: Livische Märchen- und Sagenvarianten. FF Communications 66. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1926.
- Kecskeméti/Paunonen 1974: Kecskeméti, István; Paunonen, Heikki: Die Märchentypen in den Publikationen der Finnisch-ugrischen Gesellschaft. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne 73 (1974), 205–265.
Motifs and related tale types
Motifs: The Dead Rider (Lenore) E215
Combines with: ATU 1199A Preparation of Bread·ATU 363 The Corpse-Eater (previously The Vampire)·ATU 407 The Girl as Flower
Example tales
English example tales of this type in the Trilogy folktale corpus; their texts can be read in the ATU tale-type index.
- Siegfried and Chriemhilt · German-American · Source (JSTORE): W. W. Newell, 'Tales of the Blue Mountains in Pennsylvania,' The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 11, no. 40 (January - March 1898), p. 77.
- Sweet William's Ghost · Scotland · Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, vol. 3 (London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, and Company, 1887), book 2, no. 6, pp. 130-13.
- The Abbess and the Devil · Germany · Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, Märchen aus dem Nachlaß, edited by Heinz Rölleke (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1979), Nr. 26, pp. 66-67.
Sources
Tale-type number, title, classification, related types and the Finnic sources: Hans-Jörg Uther, The Types of International Folktales (FF Communications 284–286, Helsinki 2004). · Uther 2004, part I (FF Communications 284), free online ↗
Runosong types cited in the type indexes: the song-type indexes of SKVR and ERAB.
Motifs and combinations with other tale types: the Trilogy dataset, from Stith Thompson’s Motif-Index of Folk-Literature and the ATU catalogue.
Example tales: the Trilogy folktale corpus; each tale’s own source is named beside it.
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