--- title: VI. Hudden and Dudden. — Celtic Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: VI. Hudden and Dudden., «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / VI. Hudden and Dudden. # VI. Hudden and Dudden. VI. Hudden and Dudden. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 30 sentences and 408 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/2/) — \_--From oral tradition, by the late D. W. Logie, taken down by Mr. Alfred Nutt. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/3/) — \_Parallels. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/4/) — \_--Lover has a tale, "Little Fairly," obviously derived from this folk-tale; and there is another very similar, "Darby Darly." - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/5/) — Another version of our tale is given under the title "Donald and his Neighbours," in the chapbook \_Hibernian Tales\_, whence it was reprinted by Thackeray in his \_Irish Sketch-Book\_, c. xvi. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/6/) — This has the incident of the "accidental matricide," on which see Prof. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/7/) — R. Koehler on Gonzenbach \_Sicil. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/8/) — Maehrchen\_, ii. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/9/) — 224. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/10/) — No less than four tales of Campbell are of this type (\_Pop. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/11/) — Tales\_, ii. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/12/) — 218-31). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/13/) — M. Cosquin, in his "Contes populaires de Lorraine," the storehouse of "storiology," has elaborate excursuses in this class of tales attached to his Nos. x. and xx. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/14/) — Mr. Clouston discusses it also in his \_Pop. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/15/) — Tales\_, ii. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/16/) — 229-88. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/17/) — Both these writers are inclined to trace the chief incidents to India. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/18/) — It is to be observed that one of the earliest popular drolls in Europe, \_Unibos\_, a Latin poem of the eleventh, and perhaps the tenth, century, has the main outlines of the story, the fraudulent sale of worthless objects and the escape from the sack trick. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/19/) — The same story occurs in Straparola, the European earliest collection of folk-tales in the sixteenth century. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/20/) — On the other hand, the gold sticking to the scales is familiar to us in \_Ali Baba\_. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/21/) — (\_Cf. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/22/) — \_ Cosquin, \_l.c. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/23/) — \_, i. 225-6, 229). - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/24/) — \_Remarks\_.--It is indeed curious to find, as M. Cosquin points out, a cunning fellow tied in a sack getting out by crying, "I won't marry the princess," in countries so far apart as Ireland, Sicily (Gonzenbach, No. 71), Afghanistan (Thorburn, \_Bannu\_, p. 184), and Jamaica (\_Folk-Lore Record\_, iii. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/25/) — 53). - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/26/) — It is indeed impossible to think these are disconnected, and for drolls of this kind a good case has been made out for the borrowing hypotheses by M. Cosquin and Mr. Clouston. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/27/) — Who borrowed from whom is another and more difficult question which has to be judged on its merits in each individual case. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/28/) — This is a type of Celtic folk-tales which are European in spread, have analogies with the East, and can only be said to be Celtic by adoption and by colouring. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/29/) — They form a distinct section of the tales told by the Celts, and must be represented in any characteristic selection. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/40/30/) — Other examples are xi., xv., xx., and perhaps xxii. - ← previous: [V. Conal Yellowclaw.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/39/) - next →: [VII. 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