XV. Master and Pupil XV. Master and Pupil of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 181 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--Henderson, _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, first edition, p. 343, communicated by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould. 2 The rhymes on the open book have been supplied by Mr. Batten, in whose family, if I understand him rightly, they have been long used for raising the----; something similar occurs in Halliwell, p. 243, as a riddle rhyme. 3 The mystic signs in Greek are a familiar “counting-out rhyme”: these have been studied in a monograph by Mr. H. C. Bolton; he thinks they are “survivals” of incantations. 4 Under the circumstances, it would be perhaps as well if the reader did not read the lines out when alone. 5 One never knows what may happen. 6 _Parallels_.--Sorcerers' pupils seem to be generally selected for their stupidity--in folk-tales. 7 Friar Bacon was defrauded of his labour in producing the Brazen Head in a similar way. 8 In one of the legends about Virgil he summoned a number of demons, who would have torn him to pieces if he had not set them at work (J. S. Tunison, _Master Virgil_, Cincinnati, 1888, p. 30). ← previous XIV. Three Little Pigs.next → XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.↑ back to English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/