--- title: XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped. — Indian Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped., «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/pg7128/59/) [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/) / XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped. # XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped. XXVIII. How Wicked Sons Were Duped. of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 20 sentences and 350 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/pg7128/59/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/2/) — \_--Knowles. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/3/) — \_Folk-Tales of Kashmir\_, pp. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/4/) — 241-2. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/5/) — \_Parallels. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/6/) — \_--A Gaelic parallel was given by Campbell in \_Trans. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/7/) — Ethnol. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/8/) — Soc. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/9/) — \_, ii. p. 336; an Anglo-Latin one from the Middle Ages by T. Wright in \_Latin Stories\_ (Percy Soc.), No. 26; and for these and points of anthropological interest in the Celtic variant see Mr. Gomme's article in \_Folk-Lore\_, i. pp. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/10/) — 197-206, "A Highland Folk-Tale and its Origin in Custom." - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/11/) — \_Remarks. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/12/) — \_--Mr. Gomme is of opinion that the tale arose from certain rhyming formulæ occurring in the Gaelic and Latin tales as written on a mallet left by the old man in the box opened after his death. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/13/) — The rhymes are to the effect that a father who gives up his wealth to his children in his own lifetime deserves to be put to death with the mallet. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/14/) — Mr. Gomme gives evidence that it was an archaic custom to put oldsters to death after they had become helpless. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/15/) — He also points out that it was customary for estates to be divided and surrendered during the owners' lifetime, and generally he connects a good deal of primitive custom with our story. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/16/) — I have already pointed out in \_Folk-Lore\_, p. 403, that the existence of the tale in Kashmir without any reference to the mallet makes it impossible for the rhymes on the mallet to be the source of the story. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/17/) — As a matter of fact, it is a very embarrassing addition to it, since the rhyme tells against the parent, and the story is intended to tell against the ungrateful children. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/18/) — The existence of the tale in India renders it likely enough that it is not indigenous to the British Isles, but an Oriental importation. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/19/) — It is obvious, therefore, that it cannot be used as anthropological evidence of the existence of the primitive customs to be found in it. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/59/20/) — The whole incident, indeed, is a striking example of the dangers of the anthropological method of dealing with folk-tales before some attempt is made to settle the questions of origin and diffusion. - ← previous: [XXVII. Sun, Moon, and Wind.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/58/) - next →: [XXIX. the Pigeon and the Crow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/60/) - ↑ back to [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/)