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Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 - 30 January 1916) was an Australian born folklorist who published books on English and Celtic fairy tales.
English Fairy Tales (1890)
[edit]Preface to English Fairy Tales
[edit]- Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own?
Whittington and his Cat
[edit]- Turn again Whittington,
Thrice Mayor of London- (said by the bells of London)
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
[edit]- Little pig, little pig, let me come in.
To which the pig answered: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.
The wolf answered to that, Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow the house down. - Well, he [the wolf] huffed, and he puffed, and he puffed, and he puffed and he puffed and huffed; but he could not get the house down.
- When the pig saw what he [the wolf] was about, he hung on a pot full of water, and made a blazing fire...and in fell the wolf...
The Story of the Three Bears
[edit]- Out the Old Woman jumped (of the window). And whether she broke her neck in the fall; or ran into the wood and was lost there...or taken up by a constable to the House of Correction for the vagrant she was I cannot tell. But the Three Bears never saw anything more of her.
- (note Goldilocks doesn't feature in this particular version of the story).
- Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own?
Catskin
[edit]- Kind sir, if the truth I must tell,
At the sign of Basin of Water I dwell.- said by Princess Catskin
Henny-Penny
[edit]- The sky is a-going to fall, I must go and tell the King.
- said by Henny-Penny, similar to the words said by Chicken Little
Jack and the Beanstalk
[edit]- There once was upon a time a poor widow who had an only son Jack, and a cow called Milky-White.
- You don't know what these beans are, said the man [that Jack meets]. If you plant them overnight, by morning they grew right up to the sky.
- My man is an ogre and there is nothing he likes better than boys broiled on toast.
- Fee-fi-fo-fum,
I smell the blood of an Englishman,
Be he alive or be he dead
I'll have his bones to grind my bread.- (said by the ogre or giant. Now rendered as I'll grind his bones to make my bread.)
- But the Harp called out quite loud: Master! Master!
Molly Whuppie
[edit]- Fee, fi, fo, fum
I smell the blood of some earthly one.- (said by a giant, see Jack and the Beanstalk above.)
- Woe worth you, Molly Whuppie! never you come again
Twice yet, carle, quoth she, I'll come to Spain.
More English Fairy Tales (1894)
[edit]Pied Piper
[edit]- For out of every hole the rats came tumbling.
The Three Wishes
[edit]- ...he must need wish in a hurry; and wish he did, that the black pudding may come off his nose.
Catskin
[edit]- Kind sir, if the truth I must tell,
At the sign of Basin of Water I dwell.- (said by Princess Catskin).
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