XXII. Molly Whuppie. XXII. Molly Whuppie. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 110 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--_Folk-Lore Journal_, ii. p. 68, forwarded by Rev. Walter Gregor. 2 I have modified the dialect and changed “Mally” into “Molly.” 3 _Parallels_.--The first part is clearly the theme of “Hop o' my Thumb,” which Mr. Lang has studied in his “Perrault,” pp. civ.-cxi. 4 (_cf. 5 _ Köhler, _Occident_, ii. 6 301.) 7 The change of night-dresses occurs in Greek myths. 8 The latter part wanders off into “rob giant of three things,” a familiar incident in folk-tales (Cosquin, i. 46-7), and finally winds up with the “out of sack” trick, for which see Cosquin, i. 113; ii. 9 209; and Köhler on Campbell, in _Occident and Orient_, ii. 10 489-506. ← previous XXI. Childe Rowland.next → XXIII. Red Ettin.↑ back to English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/72/