LVI. Tattercoats LVI. Tattercoats of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 194 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source. 2 _--Told to Mrs. Balfour by a little girl named Sally Brown, when she lived in the Cars in Lincolnshire. 3 Sally had got it from her mother, who worked for Mrs. Balfour. 4 It was originally told in dialect, which Mrs. Balfour has omitted. 5 _Parallels. 6 _--Miss Cox has included "Tattercoats" in her exhaustive collection of parallels of _Cinderella_ (Folk-Lore Society Publications, 1892), No. 274 from the MS. which I had lent her. 7 Miss Cox rightly classes it as "Indeterminate," and it has only the _Menial Heroine_ and _Happy Marriage_ episodes in common with stories of the Cinderella type. 8 _Remarks. 9 _--_Tattercoats_ is of interest chiefly as being without any "fairy" or supernatural elements, unless the magic pipe can be so considered; it certainly gives the tale a fairy-like element. 10 It is practically a prose variant of _King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid_, and is thus an instance of the folk-novel pure and simple, without any admixture of those unnatural incidents which transform the folk-novel into the serious folk-tale as we are accustomed to have it. 11 Which is the prior, folk-novel or tale, it would be hard to say. ← previous LV. Lawkamercymenext → LVII. the Wee Bannock↑ back to More English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/47/