A Tonoan Theogony.
Year: 1919
Type: article
Abstract: between the tar barrel set for the thief and the tar figure similarly set. 1 Joseph Jacobs found, he thought, the pattern of Tar Baby in the Jataka, " The Demon with the Matted Hair." « In this tale the essential part of Tar Baby, the incident of hitting and sticking, appears, but it does not appear as a thief-catching episode.Such an episode it is, however, in a Santal tale» which is very close to the familiar African or American versions.It may well be that the pattern of Tar Baby is Indian and that already in India it was a detachable pattern.*That it may have travelled from India to Europe attached to the Master Thief cycle is all I would suggest.That it reached Africa not only by.way of Portugal, but more directly from Asia • is likewise a tenable hypothesis, in fact, a very likely hypothesis.
Source: Folklore
Author: E. E. Collocott
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2079612894