--- title: XVI. the Son of Seven Queens. — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: XVI. the Son of Seven Queens., «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/pg7128/47/) [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/) / XVI. the Son of Seven Queens. # XVI. the Son of Seven Queens. XVI. the Son of Seven Queens. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 26 sentences and 214 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/pg7128/47/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/2/) — \_--Steel-Temple, \_Wideawake Stories\_, pp. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/3/) — 98-110, originally published in \_Ind. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/4/) — Antiq. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/5/) — \_ x. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/6/) — 147 \_seq. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/7/) — \_ - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/8/) — \_Parallels. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/9/) — \_--A long variant follows in \_Ind. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/10/) — Antiq. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/11/) — \_, \_l. c.\_ M. Cosquin refers to several Oriental variants, \_l. c.\_ p. xxx. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/12/) — \_n. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/13/) — \_ For the direction tabu, see Note on Princess Labam, \_supra\_, No. ii. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/14/) — The "letter to kill bearer" and "letter substituted" are frequent in both European (see my List \_s. v.\_) and Indian Folk-Tales (Temple, Analysis, II. iv. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/15/) — \_b\_, 6, p. 410). - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/16/) — The idea of a son of seven mothers could only arise in a polygamous country. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/17/) — It occurs in "Punchkin," \_supra\_, No. iv.; Day, \_Folk-Tales of Bengal\_, 117 \_seq. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/18/) — \_; \_Ind. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/19/) — Antiq. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/20/) — \_ i. 170 (Temple, \_l. c.\_, 398). - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/21/) — \_Remarks. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/22/) — \_--M. Cosquin (\_Contes de Lorraine\_, p. xxx.) points out how, in a Sicilian story, Gonzenbach (\_Sizil. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/23/) — Mähr. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/24/) — \_ No. 80), the seven co-queens are transformed into seven step-daughters of the envious witch who causes their eyes to be taken out. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/25/) — It is thus probable, though M. Cosquin does not point this out, that the "envious step-mother" of folk-tales (see my List, \_s. v.\_) was originally an envious co-wife. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/47/26/) — But there can be little doubt of what M. Cosquin \_does\_ point out--viz., that the Sicilian story is derived from the Indian one. - ← previous: [XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/46/) - next →: [XVII. a Lesson For Kings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/48/) - ↑ back to [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/)