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# L. the Three Feathers

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L. the Three Feathers of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 167 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/2/) — \_--Collected by Mrs. Gomme from some hop-pickers near Deptford.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/3/) — \_Parallels.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/4/) — \_--The beginning is \_à la\_ Cupid and Psyche, on which Mr. Lang's monograph in the Carabas series is the classic authority.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/5/) — The remainder is an Eastern tale, the peregrinations of which have been studied by Mr. Clouston in his \_Pop.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/6/) — Tales and Fictions\_, ii., 289, \_seq.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/7/) — \_ \_The Wright's Chaste Wife\_ is the English \_fabliau\_ on the subject.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/8/) — M. Bédier, in his recent work on \_Les Fabliaux\_, pp.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/9/) — 411-13, denies the Eastern origin of the \_fabliau\_, but in his Indiaphobia M. Bédier is \_capable de tout\_.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/10/) — In the Indian version the various messengers are sent by the king to test the chastity of a peerless wife of whom he has heard.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/11/) — The incident occurs in some versions of the "Battle of the Birds" story (\_Celtic Fairy Tales\_, No. xxiv.), and considering the wide spread of this in the British Isles, it was possibly from this source that it came to Deptford.

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