144
English Fairy Tales
IV. OLD WOMAN AND PIG.
Source.—Halliwell’s
Nursery Rhymes and Tales, 114.
Parallels.—
Cf. Miss Burne,
Shropshire Folk-Lore, 529; also
No. xxxiv.
infra (“Cat and Mouse”). It occurs also in Scotch,
with the title “The Wife and her Bush of Berries,” Chambers’s
Pop. Rhymes, p. 57. Newell,
Games and Songs of American
Children, gives a game named “Club-fist” (No. 75), founded
on this, and in his notes refers to German, Danish, and Span-
ish variants. (
Cf. Cosquin, ii. 36
seq.)
Remarks.—One of the class of Accumulative stories, which
are well represented in England. (
Cf. infra, Nos. xvi., xx.,
xxxiv.)
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