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# XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well.

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XLIII. the Three Heads of the Well. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 9 sentences and 106 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/pg7439/93/1/) — \_Source\_.--Halliwell, p. 158.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/93/2/) — The second wish has been somewhat euphemised.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/93/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--The story forms part of Peele's \_Old Wives' Tale\_, where the rhyme was
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/93/4/) — \_A Head rises in the well\_, Fair maiden, white and red, Stroke me smooth and comb my head, And thou shalt have some cockell-bread.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/93/5/) — It is also in Chambers, \_l.c.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/93/6/) — \_, 105, where the well is at the World's End (\_cf.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/93/7/) — \_ No. xli.).
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/93/8/) — The contrasted fates of two step-sisters, is the Frau Holle (Grimm, No. 24) type of Folk-tale studied by Cosquin, i. 250, \_seq.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/93/9/) — \_ “Kate Crackernuts” (No. xxxvii.) is a pleasant contrast to this.

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