Origins The two paragraphs about the Christian allegorical theme about love and the two brides being based on two meanings of love which relate to the latin words amor and veritas seems contradictory to the fact that the story is apparently based on a Russian Jewish folktale Although the Christian Jewish contradiction may be attributed to the relationship between the two religions the fact that the entire thing is made clear by the fact that the meanings of love come out better in Latin raises a few red flags for me Hell Russian isn t even a Romance language On top of all that I can find no evidence that Theophile Guerin ever existed or his 1836 book about a monk and a dead woman It s very interesting as an idea but since this information of Guerin is given rather than a citation I say that the entire two paragraphs should be IMMEDIATELY deleted However I ve already spent too much time writing all this and researching that and am too unsure to actually delete it If i get around to rechecking this discussion and no one has said anything or disagreed I will edit the entry as there is no citation and it seems unfactual and invented fictional THalleck