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Thread #140911   Message #3303159
Posted By: GUEST,SteveG
06-Feb-12 - 01:12 PM
Thread Name: Child Ballads: US Versions
Subject: RE: Child Ballads: US Versions
Personally I'm very suspicious of all versions of Twa Magicians, and I'm glad to see you are putting Hares on the Mountains in an appendix as both could at a stretch derive from continental versions independently.

KJ
You have the MacNally version from Maine but there are 3 other versions in Flanders, Ancient Ballads.

There's a pre 1850s version in the Stevens Douglass Manuscript.

There are 2 prose versions in MacEdward Leach 'Lower Labrador Coast

And Niles gives a version from Ratliff which doesn't seem to have suffered much at his hands.