LXVI. the Buried Moon LXVI. the Buried Moon of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 140 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source. 2 _--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars" in _Folk-Lore_, ii., somewhat abridged and the dialect removed. 3 The story was derived from a little girl named Bratton, who declared she had heard it from her "grannie." 4 Mrs. Balfour thinks the girl's own weird imagination had much to do with framing the details. 5 _Remarks. 6 _--The tale is noteworthy as being distinctly mythical in character, and yet collected within the last ten years from one of the English peasantry. 7 The conception of the moon as a beneficent being, the natural enemy of the bogles and other dwellers of the dark, is natural enough, but scarcely occurs, so far as I recollect, in other mythological systems. 8 There is, at any rate, nothing analogous in the Grimms' treatment of the moon in their _Teutonic Mythology_, tr. 9 Stallybrass, pp. 10 701-21. ← previous LXV. the Three Wishesnext → LXVII. a Son of Adam↑ back to More English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/