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2 unusual facts about Jack and His Comrades


Jack and His Comrades

It was later reprinted, revised but only slightly, by Joseph Jacobs in his Celtic fairy tale compilation.

The big and the little cakes are a common motif, although Jack is unusual in having no older brothers; preferring the smaller cake is often the distinguishing mark of the youngest child, as in The King of Lochlin's Three Daughters, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired, and The Girl and the Dead Man.



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