Author: Zimmer, Heinrich Robert [1890-1943]
Title: The King & the Corpse : Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
Description: Princeton [NJ], Princeton University Press, (1973). 2nd Edition. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, ix,338 pp, PAPERBACK.. Frontis.; 2 photoplates. Some rubbing. Some pencilled underlinings. Good. ¶ Contents : Abu Kasem’s slippers -- A pagan hero and a Christian saint -- Four romances from the cycle of King Arthur: Gawain and the Green Knight. The knight with the lion. Lancelot. Merlin -- The king and the corpse -- Four episodes from the romance of the goddess: The involuntary creation. The involuntary marriage. The voluntary death. Shiva mad -- On the Sipra shore.

Keywords: Comparative Religion, Myth, Mythology, Folklore, Folk Tales, , , ,