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# VII. Nix Nought Nothing.

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VII. Nix Nought Nothing. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 10 sentences and 160 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/pg7439/57/1/) — \_Source\_.--From a Scotch tale, “Nicht Nought Nothing,” collected by Mr. Andrew Lang in Morayshire, published by him first in \_Revue Celtique\_, t. iii; then in his \_Custom and Myth\_, p. 89; and again in \_Folk-Lore\_, Sept. 1890.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/2/) — I have changed the name so as to retain the \_équivoque\_ of the giant's reply to the King.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/3/) — I have also inserted the incidents of the flight, the usual ones in tales of this type, and expanded the conclusion, which is very curtailed and confused in the original.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/4/) — The usual ending of tales of this class contains the “sale of bed” incident, for which see Child, i. 391.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/5/) — \_Parallels\_.--Mr. Lang, in the essay “A Far-travelled Tale” in which he gives the story, mentions several variants of it, including the classical myth of Jason and Medea.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/6/) — A fuller study in Cosquin, \_l.c.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/7/) — \_, ii.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/8/) — 12-28.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/9/) — For the finger ladder, see Köhler, in \_Orient and Occident\_, ii.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/57/10/) — III.

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