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# IV. Horned Women.

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IV. Horned Women. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 16 sentences and 215 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/pg7885/38/1/) — \_Source\_.--Lady Wilde's \_Ancient Legends\_, the first story.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/2/) — \_Parallels\_.--A similar version was given by Mr. D. Fitzgerald in the \_Revue Celtique\_, iv.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/3/) — 181, but without the significant and impressive horns.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/4/) — He refers to \_Cornhill\_ for February 1877, and to Campbell's "Sauntraigh" No. xxii.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/5/) — \_Pop.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/6/) — Tales\_, ii.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/7/) — 52 4, in which a "woman of peace" (a fairy) borrows a woman's kettle and returns it with flesh in it, but at last the woman refuses, and is persecuted by the fairy.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/8/) — I fail to see much analogy.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/9/) — A much closer one is in Campbell, ii. p. 63, where fairies are got rid of by shouting "Dunveilg is on fire."
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/10/) — The familiar "lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children at home," will occur to English minds.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/11/) — Another version in Kennedy's \_Legendary Fictions\_, p. 164, "Black Stairs on Fire."
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/12/) — \_Remarks\_.--Slievenamon is a famous fairy palace in Tipperary according to Dr. Joyce, \_l.c.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/13/) — \_ i. 178.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/14/) — It was the hill on which Finn stood when he gave himself as the prize to the Irish maiden who should run up it quickest.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/15/) — Grainne won him with dire consequences, as all the world knows or ought to know (Kennedy, \_Legend Fict.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/38/16/) — \_, 222, "How Fion selected a Wife").

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