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# VI. the Magic Fiddle.

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VI. the Magic Fiddle. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 18 sentences and 206 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/pg7128/37/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/2/) — \_--A. Campbell, \_Santal Folk-Tales\_, 1892, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/3/) — 52-6, with some verbal alterations.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/4/) — A Bonga is the presiding spirit of a certain kind of rice land; Doms and Hadis are low-caste aborigines, whose touch is considered polluting.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/5/) — The Santals are a forest tribe, who live in the Santal Parganas, 140 miles N.W. of Calcutta (Sir W. W. Hunter, \_The Indian Empire\_, 57-60).
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/6/) — \_Parallels.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/7/) — \_--Another version occurs in Campbell, p. 106 \_seq.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/8/) — \_, which shows that the story is popular among the Santals.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/9/) — It is obvious, however, that neither version contains the real finish of the story, which must have contained the denunciation of the magic fiddle of the murderous sisters.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/10/) — This would bring it under the formula of \_The Singing Bone\_, which M. Monseur has recently been studying with a remarkable collection of European variants in the Bulletin of the Wallon Folk-Lore Society of Liège (\_cf.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/11/) — Eng.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/12/) — Fairy Tales\_, No. ix.).
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/13/) — There is a singing bone in Steel-Temple's \_Wideawake Stories\_, pp.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/14/) — 127 \_seq.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/15/) — \_ ("Little Anklebone").
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/16/) — \_Remarks.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/17/) — \_--Here we have another theme of the common store of European folk-tales found in India.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/37/18/) — Unfortunately, the form in which it occurs is mutilated, and we cannot draw any definite conclusion from it.

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