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# LXIV. the Old Witch

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LXIV. the Old Witch of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 6 sentences and 58 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/pg14241/55/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/55/2/) — \_--Collected by Mrs. Gomme at Deptford.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/55/3/) — \_Parallels.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/55/4/) — \_--I have a dim memory of hearing a similar tale in Australia in 1860.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/55/5/) — It is clearly parallel with the Grimms' \_Frau Holle\_, where the good girl is rewarded and the bad punished in a similar way.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/55/6/) — Perrault's \_Toads and Diamonds\_ is of the same \_genus\_.

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