"The Maid" and "The Hangman": Myth and Tradition in a Popular Ballad, Volume 21 |
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... golden ball , And come to set me free ? I've neither brought thy golden ball , Nor come to set thee free , But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows tree . Stop ! Stop ! I think I see my father coming . Oh , father , hast ...
... golden ball , And come to set me free ? I've neither brought thy golden ball , Nor come to set thee free , But I have come to see thee hung Upon this gallows tree . Stop ! Stop ! I think I see my father coming . Oh , father , hast ...
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... ball that is lost . Giraldus Cambrensis included in his Itinerarium Kambriae the story of Eliodorus , who , running ... golden ball that was the plaything of the underworld king's son . When he reached his home , he stumbled over the ...
... ball that is lost . Giraldus Cambrensis included in his Itinerarium Kambriae the story of Eliodorus , who , running ... golden ball that was the plaything of the underworld king's son . When he reached his home , he stumbled over the ...
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... golden ball is the gift of human parents , so that the parallel is closer to the ball - lost - in - courtyard syndrome . But the punishment is imposed by the donor , not the finder , and it is death , not involvement in subsequent ...
... golden ball is the gift of human parents , so that the parallel is closer to the ball - lost - in - courtyard syndrome . But the punishment is imposed by the donor , not the finder , and it is death , not involvement in subsequent ...
Contents
The Tunes | 66 |
The Symbols | 96 |
The Tradition in Europe | 108 |
Copyright | |
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Alan Lomax Alcestis American b1 Dala b1,2 Dala Eal b3 Cal b1 Ba3 b3 Cal ballad text balladry Bertrand Bronson Bertrand H Broadwood Bronson Cal b1,2 Dala cante-fable century Charon Child Ballad County Dala Eal Dala Eal b3 daughter Eal b3 Eal b3 Fa2b English Fa2a Fa2b father Folk Song Folklore Folksongs Gallows Tree German Gf1b Hal Gfla Hal Gglb gold and fee gold and silver gold to set golden ball Gypsies hangman hold your hand I(VI Irish Julius Krohn LC-AFS Leadbelly Little Sir Hugh London Losgekaufte Maid Freed melodic mid-cadence Moses Gaster mother motif n.d. reported narrative North Carolina oikotypal oral tradition pay my fee prickly bush ransom recorded Reed Smith refrain reported as learned reported by Davis rhyme Sabine Baring-Gould Scottish set me free Settlement School slack the rope Songs stanza textual Traditional Tunes variants Verb victim Virginia Volkslieder yonder