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# XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin.

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XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 15 sentences and 207 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/pg7885/60/1/) — \_Source\_.--Kennedy, \_Legendary Fictions\_, pp.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/2/) — 23-31.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/3/) — The Adventures of "Gilla na Chreck an Gour'."
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/4/) — \_Parallels\_.--"The Lad with the Skin Coverings" is a popular Celtic figure, \_cf.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/5/) — \_ MacDougall's Third Tale, MacInnes' Second, and a reference in Campbell, iii.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/6/) — 147.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/7/) — According to Mr. Nutt (\_Holy Grail\_, 134), he is the original of Parzival.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/8/) — But the adventures in these tales are not the "cure by laughing" incident which forms the centre of our tale, and is Indo-European in extent (\_cf.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/9/) — \_ references in \_English Fairy Tales\_, notes to No. xxvii.). "
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/10/) — The smith who made hell too hot for him is Sisyphus," says Mr. Lang (Introd. to Grimm, p. xiii.); in Ireland he is Billy Dawson (Carleton, \_Three Wishes\_).
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/11/) — In the Finn-Saga, Conan harries hell, as readers of \_Waverley\_ may remember "'Claw for claw, and devil take the shortest nails,' as Conan said to the Devil" (\_cf.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/12/) — \_ Campbell, \_The Fians\_, 73, and notes, 283).
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/13/) — Red-haired men in Ireland and elsewhere are always rogues (see Mr. Nutt's references, MacInnes' \_Tales\_, 477; to which add the case in "Lough Neagh," Yeats, \_Irish Folk-Tales\_, p. 210).
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/14/) — End of Project Gutenberg's Celtic Fairy Tales, by Joseph Jacobs (coll.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/15/) — & ed.)

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