![]() The giant's catchphrase "Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman" appears in William Shakespeare's King Lear (c. In "The Story of Jack Spriggins" the giant is named Gogmagog. In some versions of the tale, the giant is unnamed, but many plays based on it name him Blunderbore (one giant of that name appears in the 18th-century tale " Jack the Giant Killer"). According to researchers at Durham University and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the tale type (AT 328, The Boy Steals Ogre's Treasure) to which the Jack story belongs may have had a Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) origin (the same tale also has Proto-Indo-Iranian variants), and so some think that the story would have originated millennia ago (4500 BC to 2500 BC). In 1807, English writer Benjamin Tabart published The History of Jack and the Bean Stalk, possibly actually edited by William and/or Mary Jane Godwin. Roberts in the 1734 second edition of Round About Our Coal-Fire. "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" was published in London by J. Origins In Walter Crane's woodcut the harp reaches out to cling to the vine The giant, who is pursuing him, falls to his death, and Jack and his family prosper. Jack then escapes by chopping down the beanstalk. Outwitting the giant, Jack is able to retrieve many goods once stolen from his family, including a bag of gold, an enchanted goose that lays golden eggs and a magic golden harp that plays and sings by itself. The giant senses Jack's presence and cries, Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds himself in the castle of an unfriendly giant. ![]() Jack, a poor country boy, trades the family cow for a handful of magic beans, which grow into a massive, towering beanstalk reaching up into the clouds. Story 1854 illustration of Jack climbing the beanstalk by George Cruikshank ![]() Īccording to researchers at Durham University and Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the story originated more than five millennia ago, based on a widespread archaic story form which is now classified by folklorists as ATU 328 The Boy Who Stole Ogre's Treasure. "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the best known of the " Jack tales", a series of stories featuring the archetypal Cornish and English hero and stock character Jack. Jacobs' version is most commonly reprinted today, and is believed to be closer to the oral versions than Tabart's because it lacks the moralizing. Henry Cole, publishing under pen name Felix Summerly, popularized the tale in The Home Treasury (1845), and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in English Fairy Tales (1890). It appeared as " The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 and as Benjamin Tabart's moralized " The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807. ![]() " Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale. Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales (1890) Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1918, in English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steelīenjamin Tabart, The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk (1807) ![]()
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