--- title: X. Munachar and Manachar. — Celtic Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: X. Munachar and Manachar., «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source_.--I have combined the Irish version given by Dr. Hyde in his _Leabhar Sgeul. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/) [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/) / X. Munachar and Manachar. # X. Munachar and Manachar. X. Munachar and Manachar. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 15 sentences and 377 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/pg7885/44/1/) — \_Source\_.--I have combined the Irish version given by Dr. Hyde in his \_Leabhar Sgeul. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/2/) — \_, and translated by him for Mr. Yeats' \_Irish Folk and Fairy Tales\_, and the Scotch version given in Gaelic and English by Campbell, No. viii. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/3/) — \_Parallels\_.--Two English versions are given in my \_Eng. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/4/) — Fairy Tales\_, No. iv., "The Old Woman and her Pig," and xxxiv., "The Cat and the Mouse," where see notes for other variants in these isles. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/5/) — M. Cosquin, in his notes to No. xxxiv., of his \_Contes de Lorraine\_, t. ii. pp. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/6/) — 35-41, has drawn attention to an astonishing number of parallels scattered through all Europe and the East (\_cf. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/7/) — \_, too, Crane, \_Ital. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/8/) — Pop. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/9/) — Tales\_, notes, 372-5). - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/10/) — One of the earliest allusions to the jingle is in \_Don Quixote\_, pt. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/11/) — 1, c. xvi.: "Y asi como suele decirse \_el gato al rato, et rato a la cuerda, la cuerda al palo\_, daba el arriero a Sancho, Sancho a la moza, la moza a el, el ventero a la moza." - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/12/) — As I have pointed out, it is used to this day by Bengali women at the end of each folk-tale they recite (L. B. Day, \_Folk-Tales of Bengal\_, Pref.). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/13/) — \_Remarks\_.--Two ingenious suggestions have been made as to the origin of this curious jingle, both connecting it with religious ceremonies: (1) Something very similar occurs in Chaldaic at the end of the Jewish \_Hagada\_, or domestic ritual for the Passover night. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/14/) — It has, however, been shown that this does not occur in early MSS. or editions, and was only added at the end to amuse the children after the service, and was therefore only a translation or adaptation of a current German form of the jingle; (2) M. Basset, in the \_Revue des Traditions populaires\_, 1890, t. v. p. 549, has suggested that it is a survival of the old Greek custom at the sacrifice of the Bouphonia for the priest to contend that \_he\_ had not slain the sacred beast, the axe declares that the handle did it, the handle transfers the guilt further, and so on. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/44/15/) — This is ingenious, but fails to give any reasonable account of the diffusion of the jingle in countries which have had no historic connection with classical Greece. - ← previous: [IX. Deirdre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/43/) - next →: [XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/45/) - ↑ back to [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/)