XXIV. Golden Arm. XXIV. Golden Arm. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 12 sentences and 192 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--Henderson, _l.c. 2 _, p. 338, collected by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, in Devonshire. 3 Mr. Burne-Jones remembers hearing it in his youth in Warwickshire. 4 _Parallels_.--The first fragment at the end of Grimm (ii. 5 467, of Mrs. Hunt's translation), tells of an innkeeper's wife who had used the liver of a man hanging on the gallows, whose ghost comes to her and tells her what has become of his hair, and his eyes, and the dialogue concludes 6 “SHE: Where is thy liver? 7 IT: Thou hast devoured it!” 8 For similar “surprise packets” see Cosquin, ii. 9
10 _Remarks_.--It is doubtful how far such gruesome topics should be introduced into a book for children, but as a matter of fact the _katharsis_ of pity and terror among the little ones is as effective as among the spectators of a drama, and they take the same kind of pleasant thrill from such stories. 11 They know it is all make-believe just as much as the spectators of a tragedy. 12 Every one who has enjoyed the blessing of a romantic imagination has been trained up on such tales of wonder. ← previous XXIII. Red Ettin.next → XXV. Tom Thumb.↑ back to English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/74/