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# LXVI. the Buried Moon

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LXVI. the Buried Moon of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 140 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/pg14241/57/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/2/) — \_--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars" in \_Folk-Lore\_, ii., somewhat abridged and the dialect removed.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/3/) — The story was derived from a little girl named Bratton, who declared she had heard it from her "grannie."
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/4/) — Mrs. Balfour thinks the girl's own weird imagination had much to do with framing the details.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/5/) — \_Remarks.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/6/) — \_--The tale is noteworthy as being distinctly mythical in character, and yet collected within the last ten years from one of the English peasantry.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/7/) — The conception of the moon as a beneficent being, the natural enemy of the bogles and other dwellers of the dark, is natural enough, but scarcely occurs, so far as I recollect, in other mythological systems.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/8/) — There is, at any rate, nothing analogous in the Grimms' treatment of the moon in their \_Teutonic Mythology\_, tr.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/9/) — Stallybrass, pp.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/57/10/) — 701-21.

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