Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
“Then she took the heart and liver of the little girl, and she stewed them and brought them into the house for supper. The husband tasted them and shook his head. He said they tasted very strangely. She gave some to the little boy, but he would not eat. She tried to force him, but he refused, and ran out… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share
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… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
