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# XL. Fairy Ointment.

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XL. Fairy Ointment. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 13 sentences and 98 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/pg7439/90/1/) — \_Source\_.--Mrs. Bray, \_The Tamar and the Tavy\_, i. 174 (letters to Southey), as quoted by Mr. Hartland in \_Folk-Lore\_, i. 207-8.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/2/) — I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Mr. Hartland has studied Human Midwives in the \_Archaeol.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/4/) — Review\_, iv., and parallels to our story in \_Folk-Lore\_, i. 209, \_seq.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/5/) — \_; the most interesting of these is from Gervase of Tilbury (xiii. cent.), \_Otia Imper.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/6/) — \_, iii.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/7/) — 85, and three Breton tales given by M. Sebillot (\_Contes\_, ii.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/8/) — 42; \_Litt. orale\_, 23; \_Trad. et Superst.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/9/) — \_, i. 109).
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/10/) — \_Cf.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/11/) — \_ Prof.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/12/) — Child, i. 339; ii.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/90/13/) — 505.

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