Modern Irish Versions of the Enchanted Pear Tree Episode.
- Author / Editor
- Watkins, Charles A.
Modern Irish Versions of the Enchanted Pear Tree Episode.
- Published
- Southern Folklore Quarterly 30 (1966): 202-13,
- Description
- Tabulates the plots and motifs of twenty-one modern Irish tales purported to be analogues of the pear tree episode in MerT, suggesting that those accounts which include the motif of optical illusion (rather than blindness) should not be considered analogues.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Merchant and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations