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  2. Joseph Jacobs - Wikipedia

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    Indo-European fairy tales; Jewish history. Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was a New South Welsh -born British - Jewish folklorist, translator, literary critic, social scientist, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English folklore . Jacobs was born in Sydney to a Jewish ...

  3. English Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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    English Fairy Tales is a book containing a collection of 41 fairy tales retold by Flora Annie Steel and published in 1918 by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London. It was illustrated by Arthur Rackham and entails a variety of fairy tales featuring mythical creatures, heroic figures, and moral lessons.

  4. Kate Crackernuts - Wikipedia

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    Kate Crackernuts. " Kate Crackernuts " (or " Katie Crackernuts ") is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Andrew Lang in the Orkney Islands and published in Longman's Magazine in 1889. Joseph Jacobs edited and republished the tale in his English Fairy Tales (1890). [1] The tale is about a princess who rescues her beautiful sister from an evil ...

  5. The Rose-Tree - Wikipedia

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    The Rose-Tree is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales. [1] It is also included within A Book Of British Fairytales by Alan Garner . It is Aarne–Thompson type 720, my mother slew me; my father ate me. Another of this type is "The Juniper Tree", where the dead child is a boy; The Rose Tree is an unusual ...

  6. My Own Self - Wikipedia

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    My Own Self, Me Aan Sel or Ainsel is a Northumbrian fairy tale collected by the folklorist Joseph Jacobs. A version of the tale appears in Scottish Folk Tales by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is Aarne-Thompson type 1137 (Self Did It), similar to the encounter between Odysseus and Polyphemus, [1]. The story tells how a fairy is outsmarted by a human ...

  7. Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box - Wikipedia

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    The Red Ettin, The Girl and the Dead Man, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired. Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box is a Romani fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales. He listed as his source Francis Hindes Groome 's In Gypsy Tents . Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in The Red King and the Witch: Gypsy Folk and Fairy Tales .

  8. Childe Rowland - Wikipedia

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    Childe Rowland is a fairy tale, the most popular version written by Joseph Jacobs in his English Fairy Tales, published in 1890, based on an earlier version published in 1814 by Robert Jamieson. Jamieson's was repeating a "Scottish ballad", which he had heard from a tailor. Joseph Jacobs called the King of Elfland's palace "the Dark Tower" in ...

  9. Sir Gammer Vans - Wikipedia

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    Sir Gammer Vans is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in More English Fairy Tales. [1] It is Aarne-Thompson 1965, Lying Tales, and includes an episode of 1890, the lucky shot. [2]

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