The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found. — 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… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Then she took the heart and liver of the little girl, and she stewed them and brought them into the house for supper. The… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
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
