LXXIV. King O' Cats LXXIV. King O' Cats of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 14 sentences and 148 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source. 2 _--I have taken a point here and a point there from the various English versions mentioned in the next section. 3 I have expanded the names, so as to make a jingle from the Dildrum and Doldrum of Hartland. 4 _Parallels. 5 _--Five variants of this quaint legend have been collected in England: (1) Halliwell, _Pop. 6 Rhymes_, 167, "Molly Dixon"; (2) _Choice Notes--Folk-Lore_, p. 73, "Colman Grey"; (3) _Folk-Lore Journal_, ii., 22, "King o' the Cats"; (4) _Folk-Lore--England_ (Gibbings), "Johnny Reed's Cat"; (5) Hartland and Wilkinson, _Lancashire Legends_, p. 13, "Dildrum Doldrum." 7 Sir F. 8 Palgrave gives a Danish parallel; _cf. 9 _ Halliwell, _l.c. 10 _ 11 _Remarks. 12 _--An interesting example of the spread and development of a simple anecdote throughout England. 13 Here again we can scarcely imagine more than a single origin for the tale which is, in its way, as weird and fantastic as E.A. 14 Poe. ← previous Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.next → LXXV. Tamlane↑ back to More English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/67/