--- title: X. the Soothsayer's Son. — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: X. the Soothsayer's Son., «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / X. the Soothsayer's Son. # X. the Soothsayer's Son. X. the Soothsayer's Son. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 27 sentences and 332 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/2/) — \_--Mrs. Kingscote, \_Tales of the Sun\_ (p. 11 \_seq. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/3/) — \_), from Pandit Natesa Sastri's \_Folk-Lore of Southern India\_, pt. ii., originally from \_Ind. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/4/) — Antiquary\_. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/5/) — I have considerably condensed and modified the somewhat Babu English of the original. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/6/) — \_Parallels. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/7/) — \_--See Benfey, \_Pantschatantra\_, § 71, i. pp. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/8/) — 193-222, who quotes the \_Karma Jataka\_ as the ultimate source: it also occurs in the \_Saccankira Jataka\_ (Fausböll, No. 73), trans. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/9/) — Rev. R. Morris, \_Folk-Lore Jour. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/10/) — \_ iii. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/11/) — 348 \_seq. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/12/) — \_ The story of the ingratitude of man compared with the gratitude of beasts came early to the West, where it occurs in the \_Gesta Romanorum\_, c. 119. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/13/) — It was possibly from an early form of this collection that Richard Coeur de Lion got the story, and used it to rebuke the ingratitude of the English nobles on his return in 1195. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/14/) — Matthew Paris tells the story, \_sub anno\_ (it is an addition of his to Ralph Disset), \_Hist. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/15/) — Major\_, ed. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/16/) — Luard, ii. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/17/) — 413-6, how a lion and a serpent and a Venetian named Vitalis were saved from a pit by a woodman, Vitalis promising him half his fortune, fifty talents. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/18/) — The lion brings his benefactor a leveret, the serpent "gemmam pretiosam," probably "the precious jewel in his head" to which Shakespeare alludes (\_As You Like It\_, ii. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/19/) — I., \_cf. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/20/) — \_ Benfey, \_l. c.\_, p. 214, \_n. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/21/) — \_), but Vitalis refuses to have anything to do with him, and altogether repudiates the fifty talents. " - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/22/) — Hæc referebat Rex Richardus munificus, ingratos redarguendo." - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/23/) — \_Remarks. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/24/) — \_--Apart from the interest of its wide travels, and its appearance in the standard mediæval History of England by Matthew Paris, the modern story shows the remarkable persistence of folk-tales in the popular mind. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/25/) — Here we have collected from the Hindu peasant of to-day a tale which was probably told before Buddha, over two thousand years ago, and certainly included among the Jatakas before the Christian era. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/26/) — The same thing has occurred with \_The Tiger, Brahman, and Jackal\_ (No. ix. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/41/27/) — \_supra\_). - ← previous: [IX. the Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/40/) - next →: [XI. 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