English Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs the Germans, and similar diminutive heroes elsewhere (cf. Deulin, Contes de ma Mère l’Oye, 326), but of his advent ...

English Fairy Tales XXVIII. JOHNNY-CAKE. Source.—American Journal of Folk-Lore, ii. 60. Parallels.—Another variant is given in t ...

Joseph Jacobs of a domestic Providence. He not alone punished bad boys, as here, but also rewarded the good, by leaving them gif ...

English Fairy Tales XXXII. THE STRANGE VISITOR Source.—From Chambers, l.c., 64, much Anglicised. I have retained “Aih-late-wee-m ...

Joseph Jacobs XXXIV. CAT AND MOUSE. Source.—Halliwell, p. 154. Parallels.—Scarcely more than a variant of the “Old Woman and her ...

English Fairy Tales Remarks.—English popular tradition is curiously at variance about the magpie’s nidificatory powers, for anot ...

Joseph Jacobs XXXIX. ASS, TABLE AND STICK. Source.—Henderson, l.c., first edition, pp. 327-9, by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. Paral ...

English Fairy Tales XLI. THE WELL OF THE WORLD’S END. Source.—Leyden’s edition of The Complaynt of Scotland, p. 234 seq., with a ...

Joseph Jacobs XLIII. THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL. Source.—Halliwell, p. 158. The second wish has been some- what euphemised. Par ...