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Joseph Jacobs Quotes

Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect Picture Quote #1

I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha Picture Quote #1

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans Picture Quote #1

In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of ‘Cinderella’ and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country Picture Quote #1

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air Picture Quote #1

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment Picture Quote #1

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The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered Picture Quote #1

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Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect (Joseph Jacobs Quotes) I have come to the conclusion that a goodly number of the fables that pass under the name of the Samian slave, Aesop, were derived from India, probably from the same source whence the same tales were utilised in the Jatakas, or Birth-stories of Buddha. (Joseph Jacobs Quotes) The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. (Joseph Jacobs Quotes) In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of ‘Cinderella’ and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country. (Joseph Jacobs Quotes) Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air. (Joseph Jacobs Quotes) Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. (Joseph Jacobs Quotes) The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered. (Joseph Jacobs Quotes)