--- title: LII. Tom Hickathrift — More English Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: LII. Tom Hickathrift, «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / LII. Tom Hickathrift # LII. Tom Hickathrift LII. Tom Hickathrift of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 21 sentences and 372 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/2/) — \_--From the Chap-book, \_c.\_ 1660, in the Pepysian Library, edited for the Villon Society by Mr. G.L. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/3/) — Gomme. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/4/) — Mr. Nutt, who kindly abridged it for me, writes, "Nothing in the shape of incident has been omitted, and there has been no rewriting beyond a phrase here and there rendered necessary by the process of abridgment. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/5/) — But I have in one case altered the sequence of events putting the fight with the giant last." - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/6/) — \_Parallels. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/7/) — \_--There are similar adventures of giants in Hunt's Cornish \_Drolls\_. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/8/) — Sir Francis Palgrave (\_Quart. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/9/) — Rev.\_, vol. xxi.), and after him, Mr. Gomme, have drawn attention to certain similarities with the Grettir Saga, but they do not extend beyond general resemblances of great strength. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/10/) — Mr. Gomme, however, adds that the cartwheel "plays a not unimportant part in English folk-lore as a representative of old runic faith" (Villon Soc. edition, p. xv.). - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/11/) — \_Remarks. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/12/) — \_--Mr. Gomme, in his interesting Introduction, points out several indications of considerable antiquity for the legend, various expressions in the Pepysian Chap-book ("in the marsh of the Isle of Ely," "good ground"), indicating that it could trace back to the sixteenth century. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/13/) — On the other hand, there is evidence of local tradition persisting from that time onward till the present day (Weaver, \_Funerall Monuments\_, 1631, pp. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/14/) — 866-7; Spelman, \_Icenia\_, 1640, p. 138; Dugdale, \_Imbanking\_, 1662 (ed. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/15/) — 1772, p. 244); Blomefield, \_Norfolk\_, 1808, ix., pp. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/16/) — 79, 80). - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/17/) — These refer to a sepulchral monument in Tylney churchyard which had figured on a stone coffin an axle-tree and cart-wheel. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/18/) — The name in these versions of the legend is given as Hickifric, and he is there represented as a village Hampden who withstood the tyranny of the local lord of the manor. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/19/) — Mr. Gomme is inclined to believe, I understand him, that there is a certain amount of evidence for Tom Hickathrift being a historic personality round whom some of the Scandinavian mythical exploits have gathered. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/20/) — I must refer to his admirable Introduction for the ingenious line of reasoning on which he bases these conclusions. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/43/21/) — Under any circumstances no English child's library of folk-tales can be considered complete that does not present a version of Mr. Hickathrift's exploits. - ← previous: [LI. Sir Gammer Vans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/) - next →: [LIII. the Hedley Kow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/44/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/)