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# I. Tom Tit Tot.

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I. Tom Tit Tot. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 9 sentences and 246 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/pg7439/51/1/) — \_Source\_.--Unearthed by Mr. E. Clodd from the “Suffolk Notes and Queries” of the \_Ipswich Journal\_, and reprinted by him in a paper on “The Philosophy of Rumpelstiltskin” in \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, vii.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/2/) — 138-43.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/3/) — I have reduced the Suffolk dialect.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/4/) — \_Parallels\_.--In Yorkshire this occurs as “Habetrot and Scantlie Mab,” in Henderson's \_Folk-Lore of Northern Counties\_, 221-6; in Devonshire as “Duffy and the Devil” in Hunt's \_Romances and Drolls of the West of England\_, 239-47; in Scotland two variants are given by Chambers, \_Popular Rhymes of Scotland\_, under the title “Whuppity Stourie.”
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/5/) — The “name-guessing wager” is also found in “Peerifool”, printed by Mr. Andrew Lang in \_Longman's Magazine\_, July 1889, also \_Folk-Lore\_, September, 1890.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/6/) — It is clearly the same as Grimm's “Rumpelstiltskin” (No. 14); for other Continental parallels see Mr. Clodd's article, and Cosquin, \_Contes pop. de Lorraine\_, i. 269 \_seq\_.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/7/) — \_Remarks\_.--One of the best folk-tales that have ever been collected, far superior to any of the continental variants of this tale with which I am acquainted.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/8/) — Mr. Clodd sees in the class of name-guessing stories, a “survival” of the superstition that to know a man's name gives you power over him, for which reason savages object to tell their names.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/51/9/) — It may be necessary, I find, to explain to the little ones that Tom Tit can only be referred to as “that,” because his name is not known till the end.

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