XL. Fairy Ointment. XL. Fairy Ointment. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 13 sentences and 98 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source_.--Mrs. Bray, _The Tamar and the Tavy_, i. 174 (letters to Southey), as quoted by Mr. Hartland in _Folk-Lore_, i. 207-8. 2 I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession. 3 _Parallels_.--Mr. Hartland has studied Human Midwives in the _Archaeol. 4 Review_, iv., and parallels to our story in _Folk-Lore_, i. 209, _seq. 5 _; the most interesting of these is from Gervase of Tilbury (xiii. cent.), _Otia Imper. 6 _, iii. 7 85, and three Breton tales given by M. Sebillot (_Contes_, ii. 8 42; _Litt. orale_, 23; _Trad. et Superst. 9 _, i. 109). 10 _Cf. 11 _ Prof. 12 Child, i. 339; ii. 13
← previous XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick.next → XLI. the Well of the World's End.↑ back to English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/