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# LXI. the Blinded Giant

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LXI. the Blinded Giant of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 12 sentences and 162 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/pg14241/52/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/2/) — \_--Henderson's \_Folk-Lore of Northern Counties\_.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/3/) — See also \_Folk-Lore\_.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/4/) — \_Parallels.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/5/) — \_--Polyphemus in the Odyssey and the Celtic parallels in \_Celtic Fairy Tales\_, No. v., "Conall Yellowclaw."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/6/) — The same incident occurs in one of Sindbad's voyages.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/7/) — \_Remarks.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/8/) — \_--Here we have another instance of the localisation of a well-known myth.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/9/) — There can be little doubt that the version is ultimately to be traced back to the Odyssey.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/10/) — The one-eyed giant, the barred door, the escape through the blinded giant's legs in the skin of a slaughtered animal, are a series of incidents that could not have arisen independently and casually.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/11/) — Yet till lately the mill stood to prove if the narrator lied, and every circumstance of local particularity seemed to vouch for the autochthonous character of the myth.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/52/12/) — The incident is an instructive one, and I have therefore included it in this volume, though it is little more than an anecdote in its present shape.

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