English Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs who she was. “I am,” said she, “the King of Colchester’s daughter-in- law.” “Well,” said the cobbler, “if I restor ...

English Fairy Tales NOTES AND REFERENCES In the following notes I give first the source whence I ob- tained the various tales. T ...

Joseph Jacobs II. THE THREE SILLIES. Source.—From Folk-Lore Journal, ii. 40-3; to which it was communicated by Miss C. Burne. Pa ...

English Fairy Tales IV. OLD WOMAN AND PIG. Source.—Halliwell’s Nursery Rhymes and Tales, 114. Parallels.—Cf. Miss Burne, Shropsh ...

Joseph Jacobs VI. MR. VINEGAR. Source.—Halliwell, p. 149. Parallels.—This is the Hans im Glück of Grimm (No. 83). Cf. too, “Lazy ...

English Fairy Tales VIII. JACK HANNAFORD. Source.—Henderson’s Folk-Lore of Northern Counties (first edition), p. 319. Communicat ...

Joseph Jacobs XI. CAP O’ RUSHES. Source.—Discovered by Mr. E. Clodd, in “Suffolk Notes and Queries” of the Ipswich Journal, publ ...

English Fairy Tales XIV. THREE LITTLE PIGS. Source.—Halliwell, p. 16. Parallels.—The only known parallels are one from Venice, B ...

Joseph Jacobs XVI. TATTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE. Source.—Halliwell, p. 115. Parallels.—This curious droll is extremely widespread ...

English Fairy Tales have here the detritus of archaic Aryan mythology, a parody of a sun-myth. There is little that is savage an ...

Joseph Jacobs cluding the mice, is afforded by a tale in Carnoy and Nicolaides’ Traditions populaires de l’Asie Mineure, which i ...

English Fairy Tales XIX. JACK THE GIANT-KILLER. Source.—From two chap-books at the British Museum (Lon- don, 1805, Paisley, 1814 ...

Joseph Jacobs XX. HENNY-PENNY. Source.—I give this as it was told me in Australia in 1860. The fun consists in the avoidance of ...

English Fairy Tales brothers succeeds after the others have failed, is one of the most familiar in folk-tales amusingly parodied ...

Joseph Jacobs and adapted it to the purposes of the masque at Ludlow Castle, and of his allegory. Certainly no other folk-tale i ...

English Fairy Tales so—should be so”; “and his lady, him behind”); and x. and xxxii. are rhythmical if not rhyming. As most of t ...

Joseph Jacobs things may have happened and bear no such à priori marks of impossibility as speaking animals, flying through the ...

English Fairy Tales Altogether it seems not improbable that in such a tale as “Childe Rowland” we have an idealised picture of a ...

Joseph Jacobs XXII. MOLLY WHUPPIE. Source.—Folk-Lore Journal, ii. p. 68, forwarded by Rev. Walter Gregor. I have modified the di ...

English Fairy Tales Here it is the simpler Sphinx form of the “riddle task,” on which see Köhler in Jahrb. rom. Phil., vii. 273, ...