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* "Literature/{{Catskin}}" (a "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" variant)

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* "Literature/{{Catskin}}" (a "Literature/{{Cinderella}}" variant)"Literature/{{Catskin}}"

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* "Literature/EuropeanFolkAndFairyTales": A compilation book which attempts to recreate original famous tales.



* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'' or ''[[Literature/{{EuropeanFolkAndFairyTales}} Europa's Fairy Book]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[UrExample Ur-Texts]].

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'' ''Literature/EuropeanFolkAndFairyTales'' or ''[[Literature/{{EuropeanFolkAndFairyTales}} ''[[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=134 Europa's Fairy Book]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[UrExample Ur-Texts]].
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* "Literature/EuropeanFolkAndFairyTales": A compilation book which attempts to recreate original famous tales.
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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[UrExample Ur-Texts]].

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', Tales]]'' or ''[[Literature/{{EuropeanFolkAndFairyTales}} Europa's Fairy Book]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[UrExample Ur-Texts]].
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* BecomeARealBoy:
** In "Literature/TheGreekPrincessAndTheYoungGardener" ([[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/34453/pg34453-images.html#Page_110 link]]), [[TalkingAnimal a fox]] demands that the hero cut off his head at the end; this is needed to transform him back to a man, as he is the enchanted brother of the Greek Princess.
** The hero of "Literature/TheBlackBullOfNorroway" ([[https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14241/pg14241-images.html#The_Black_Bull_of_Norroway link]]) wishes to marry the heroine because if she lives with him for a time, he will be freed of his curse. Unfortunately, she invariably violates a prohibition, which puts him in the power of the person who transformed him, and she must find him again to free him.
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** "Molly Whuppie" is classified as type ATU 327B, "The Small Boy Defeats the Ogre", a type where the protagonist is usually a male hero.

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** "Molly Whuppie" is classified as type ATU 327B, "The Small Boy Defeats the Ogre" or "The Brothers and the Ogre", a type where the protagonist is usually a male hero.
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Mistook one for the other: despite being variants of the same tale type, the German tale is the one where she kills her step-son.


* WickedStepmother: As usual for traditional fairy tales. Jacobs's tales contain a particularly nasty one: in "The Rose Tree", she kills her step-son and ''prepares a meal'' with his flesh.

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* WickedStepmother: As usual for traditional fairy tales. Jacobs's tales contain a particularly nasty one: in "The Rose Tree", she kills her step-son step-daughter and ''prepares a meal'' with his her flesh.
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* SculleryMaid: Catskin is a princess who is forced to flee home and finds a menial job as a kitchen maiden in another kingdom.

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* SculleryMaid: Catskin is a princess who is forced to flee home and finds a menial job as a kitchen maiden maid in another kingdom.
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** "Molly Whuppie" is classified as type ATU 327B, "The Small Boy Defeats the Ogre", a type where the protagonist is a male hero.

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** "Molly Whuppie" is classified as type ATU 327B, "The Small Boy Defeats the Ogre", a type where the protagonist is usually a male hero.
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%%* RagsToRoyalty

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%%* RagsToRoyalty* RagsToRoyalty: A staple of traditional fairy tales: humble heroes rise from their lowly station by marrying princesses; fallen princesses regain their position by wedding princes.
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* SculleryMaid: Catskin is a princess and is forced to flee home and finds a menial job as a kitchen maiden in another kingdom.

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* SculleryMaid: Catskin is a princess and who is forced to flee home and finds a menial job as a kitchen maiden in another kingdom.
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%%* PersonWithTheClothing: Some of his tales are titled after a particular garment the characters wear:

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%%* * PersonWithTheClothing: Some of his tales are titled after a particular garment the characters wear:



%%* SculleryMaid: Catskin

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%%* * SculleryMaid: CatskinCatskin is a princess and is forced to flee home and finds a menial job as a kitchen maiden in another kingdom.

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%%* PersonWithTheClothing: "Tattercoats", "Rushen Coatie"

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%%* PersonWithTheClothing: "Tattercoats", Some of his tales are titled after a particular garment the characters wear:
** "Tattercoats" is named so after the rags her grandfather forces her to wear.
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"Rushen Coatie"Coatie": the heroine flees from home and dons a makeshift dress made of bulrushes.
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%%* SheCleansUpNicely: "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie". Not, however, "Tattercoats"

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%%* SheCleansUpNicely: "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie". Not, however, "Tattercoats""Tattercoats".



%%* WickedStepmother: In "The Rose Tree"

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%%* * WickedStepmother: In As usual for traditional fairy tales. Jacobs's tales contain a particularly nasty one: in "The Rose Tree"Tree", she kills her step-son and ''prepares a meal'' with his flesh.
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%%* GenderFlip:
%%** "Molly Whuppie" features in the tale type known as "The Small Boy Defeats the Ogre"
%%** "The Fish and the Ring" features a poor girl destined to marry a rich noble's son.
%%** "Kate Crackernuts" features a flip of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"

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%%* GenderFlip:
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* GenderFlip: Some of the tales he collected and published are gender-flip variations of well-known tale types:
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"Molly Whuppie" features in the tale is classified as type known as ATU 327B, "The Small Boy Defeats the Ogre"
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Ogre", a type where the protagonist is a male hero.
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"The Fish and the Ring" features a poor girl destined to marry a rich noble's son.
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son, a gender inverted variation on the usual story where the male protagonist is prophecised to marry a nobleman's daughter.
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"Kate Crackernuts" features a flip of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"Princesses": instead of a male protagonist chasing after a group of princesses into their secret underground ball, here we have a heroine following a prince to the faeries' secret dance.



%%* SheCleansUpNicely: "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie". Not, however "Tattercoats"

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%%* SheCleansUpNicely: "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie". Not, however however, "Tattercoats"

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%%* DancesAndBalls
%%* DeathByChildbirth: Tattercoat's mother

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%%* DancesAndBalls
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* DancesAndBalls: Some major examples:
** In ''Kate Crackernuts'', the prince is magically entralled by the fairies to dance at their phantasmal ball.
** In ''Tattercoats'', as soon as the titular heroine appears at the ball, the story's prince declares she will be his bride.
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DeathByChildbirth: In ''Tattercoats'', Tattercoat's mothermother dies while giving birth to the titular heroine.

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* AtTheCrossroads: "The King of England and His Three Sons"
* DancesAndBalls
* DeathByChildbirth: Tattercoat's mother
* DueToTheDead: In "The Rose Tree" the stepmother fails, and her child succeeds.

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* %%* AtTheCrossroads: "The King of England and His Three Sons"
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* %%* DeathByChildbirth: Tattercoat's mother
* %%* DueToTheDead: In "The Rose Tree" the stepmother fails, and her child succeeds.



* TheFairFolk: A rare phenomena: actual fairies in a fairy tale, "Literature/KateCrackernuts". But not nice ones.

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* %%* TheFairFolk: A rare phenomena: actual fairies in a fairy tale, "Literature/KateCrackernuts". But not nice ones.



* GenderFlip:
** "Molly Whuppie" features in the tale type known as "The Small Boy Defeats the Ogre"
** "The Fish and the Ring" features a poor girl destined to marry a rich noble's son.
** "Kate Crackernuts" features a flip of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"

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* %%* GenderFlip:
** %%** "Molly Whuppie" features in the tale type known as "The Small Boy Defeats the Ogre"
** %%** "The Fish and the Ring" features a poor girl destined to marry a rich noble's son.
** %%** "Kate Crackernuts" features a flip of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"



* LoveAtFirstSight: "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener"

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* %%* LoveAtFirstSight: "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener"



* MistakenNationality: Jacobs is often thought to be British, but he was actually born in Australia and only moved to England at age 18. The last 16 years of his life he spent in the United States.



* OldRetainer
* PersonWithTheClothing: "Tattercoats", "Rushen Coatie"
* PinocchioSyndrome: "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener"
* PrinceCharming: Tattercoats gets a particularly charming one: he actually falls in love with her in her rags.
* TheQuest: To rescue the moon goddess in "Literature/TheBuriedMoon".
* RagsToRoyalty
* SculleryMaid: Catskin
* SheCleansUpNicely: "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie". Not, however "Tattercoats"
* StandardHeroReward: Molly Whuppie and Kate Crackernuts (Told you they were a GenderFlip.)
* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve
* WickedStepmother: In "The Rose Tree"

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* %%* OldRetainer
* %%* PersonWithTheClothing: "Tattercoats", "Rushen Coatie"
* PinocchioSyndrome: %%* BecomeARealBoy: "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener"
* %%* PrinceCharming: Tattercoats gets a particularly charming one: he actually falls in love with her in her rags.
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TheQuest: To rescue the moon goddess in "Literature/TheBuriedMoon".
* %%* RagsToRoyalty
* %%* SculleryMaid: Catskin
* %%* SheCleansUpNicely: "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie". Not, however "Tattercoats"
* %%* StandardHeroReward: Molly Whuppie and Kate Crackernuts (Told you they were a GenderFlip.)
* %%* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve
* %%* WickedStepmother: In "The Rose Tree"

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[Main/UrExample Ur-Texts]].

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[Main/UrExample [[UrExample Ur-Texts]].


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* LiminalTime: In "Literature/FairBrownAndTrembling" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20200126063442/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/celtic/fairbrowntrembling.html link]]), the heroine is particularly vulnerable to an abduction and substitution when she gives birth and finds herself at the state between childlessness and maternity.
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Baleful Polymorph was renamed per TRS. As is typical with dewicking projects, zero-context examples were deleted, as it is impossible to tell if they are misuse.


* BalefulPolymorph: "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener", "Literature/TheLaidlyWormOfSpindlestonHeugh"
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Joseph Jacobs' version of "Tam Lin" is actually titled "Tamlane". Source.


* "Literature/TamLin"

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* "Literature/TamLin""[[Literature/TamLin Tamlane]]"



* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#MOREENGLISH More English Fairy Tales]]'', containing "The Black Bull of Norroway" (a variant on "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon"), "Tam Lin", "The Buried Moon", "My Own Self", "How Jack Sought the Golden Apples" and three variants on "Literature/{{Cinderella}}", "Literature/Tattercoats", "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie".

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#MOREENGLISH More English Fairy Tales]]'', containing "The Black Bull of Norroway" (a variant on "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon"), "Tam Lin", "Literature/{{Tamlane}}", "The Buried Moon", "My Own Self", "How Jack Sought the Golden Apples" and three variants on "Literature/{{Cinderella}}", "Literature/Tattercoats", "Literature/{{Tattercoats}}", "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie".
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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [Main/{UrExample} Ur-Texts].

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [Main/{UrExample} Ur-Texts].
[[Main/UrExample Ur-Texts]].
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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[Main/{UrExample} Ur-Texts]].

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[Main/{UrExample} Ur-Texts]].
[Main/{UrExample} Ur-Texts].
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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[Ur-Example Ur-Texts]].

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[Ur-Example [[Main/{UrExample} Ur-Texts]].
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And I quote: "It has occurred to me that it would be of great interest and, for folk-lore purposes, of no little importance, to bring together these common Folk-Tales of Europe, retold in such a way as to bring out the original form from which all the variants were derived"


* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#EUROPEAN European Folk and Fairy Tales]]'', containing many of the most familiar tales in slightly different forms than most people have heard of them.

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them. According to Jacobs's notes, he attempted to merge all available variants of a certain tale to recreate their [[Ur-Example Ur-Texts]].

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* "Literature/{{Tamlane}}"

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* "Literature/{{Tamlane}}""Literature/{{Tattercoats}}"
* "Literature/TamLin"



* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#MOREENGLISH More English Fairy Tales]]'', containing "The Black Bull of Norroway" (a variant on "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon"), "Tamlane", "The Buried Moon", "My Own Self", "How Jack Sought the Golden Apples" and three variants on "Literature/{{Cinderella}}", "Literature/{{Tattercoats}}", "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie".

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#MOREENGLISH More English Fairy Tales]]'', containing "The Black Bull of Norroway" (a variant on "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon"), "Tamlane", "Tam Lin", "The Buried Moon", "My Own Self", "How Jack Sought the Golden Apples" and three variants on "Literature/{{Cinderella}}", "Literature/{{Tattercoats}}", "Literature/Tattercoats", "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie".
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob:
** "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191113202612/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/moreenglish/rushencoatie.html Rushen Coatie]]" is a princess forced to work in the kitchens by her abusive family.
** "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200502212540/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/english/fishring.html The Fish And The Ring]]", the main character is a peasant girl who gets married to a baron's son, and then she becomes a scullion girl after she is thrown out of her father-in-law's castle.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect:
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191023203807/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs/english/fishring.html The Fish and the Ring]]", the Baron attempts to murder the poor girl several times, even though she fullfills every task he demands from her, only because his child is fated to marry her.
** In "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20200130102158/http://surlalunefairytales.com/jackbeanstalk/stories/esbenwitch.html Esben and the Witch]]", whenever Esben succeeds in a task, his enemy at court incites the king to give him another, and the king is only too willing to listen.

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* "Literature/HowJackSoughtTheGoldenApples"



* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#MOREENGLISH More English Fairy Tales]]'', containing "The Black Bull of Norroway" (a variant on "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon"), "Tamlane", "The Buried Moon", "My Own Self", and three variants on "Literature/{{Cinderella}}", "Literature/{{Tattercoats}}", "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie".

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* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20191024101147/http://surlalunefairytales.com/authors/jacobs.html#MOREENGLISH More English Fairy Tales]]'', containing "The Black Bull of Norroway" (a variant on "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon"), "Tamlane", "The Buried Moon", "My Own Self", "How Jack Sought the Golden Apples" and three variants on "Literature/{{Cinderella}}", "Literature/{{Tattercoats}}", "Catskin", and "Rushen Coatie".

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