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# LXVII. a Son of Adam

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LXVII. a Son of Adam of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 128 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/pg14241/58/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/2/) — \_--From memory, by Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, as heard by him from his nurse in childhood.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/3/) — \_Parallels.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/4/) — \_--Jacques de Vitry \_Exempla\_, ed.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/5/) — Prof.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/6/) — Crane, No. xiii., and references given in notes, p. 139.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/7/) — It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/8/) — \_Remarks.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/9/) — \_--The \_Exempla\_ were anecdotes, witty and otherwise, used by the monks in their sermons to season their discourse.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/10/) — Often they must have been derived from the folk of the period, and at first sight it might seem that we had found still extant among the folk the story that had been the original of Jacques de Vitry's \_Exemplum\_.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/58/11/) — But the theological basis of the story shows clearly that it was originally a monkish invention and came thence among the folk.

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