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# XV. Master and Pupil

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XV. Master and Pupil of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 8 sentences and 181 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/pg7439/65/1/) — \_Source\_.--Henderson, \_Folk-Lore of Northern Counties\_, first edition, p. 343, communicated by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/2/) — The rhymes on the open book have been supplied by Mr. Batten, in whose family, if I understand him rightly, they have been long used for raising the----; something similar occurs in Halliwell, p. 243, as a riddle rhyme.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/3/) — The mystic signs in Greek are a familiar “counting-out rhyme”: these have been studied in a monograph by Mr. H. C. Bolton; he thinks they are “survivals” of incantations.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/4/) — Under the circumstances, it would be perhaps as well if the reader did not read the lines out when alone.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/5/) — One never knows what may happen.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/6/) — \_Parallels\_.--Sorcerers' pupils seem to be generally selected for their stupidity--in folk-tales.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/7/) — Friar Bacon was defrauded of his labour in producing the Brazen Head in a similar way.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/65/8/) — In one of the legends about Virgil he summoned a number of demons, who would have torn him to pieces if he had not set them at work (J. S. Tunison, \_Master Virgil\_, Cincinnati, 1888, p. 30).

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