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# XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead.

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XXII. the Boy With Moon on Forehead. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 7 sentences and 92 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/pg7128/53/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/53/2/) — \_--Miss Stokes' \_Indian Fairy Tales\_, No. 20, pp.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/53/3/) — 119-137.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/53/4/) — \_Parallels\_ to heroes and heroines in European fairy tales, with stars on their foreheads, are given with some copiousness in Stokes, \_l. c.\_, pp.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/53/5/) — 242-3.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/53/6/) — This is an essentially Indian trait; almost all Hindus have some tribal or caste mark on their bodies or faces.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/53/7/) — The choice of the hero disguised as a menial is also common property of Indian and European fairy tales: see Stokes, \_l. c.\_, p. 231, and my List of Incidents (\_s. v.\_ "Menial Disguise.")

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