Warning might perhaps be given of the confusion of Pollies in most of the Virginia texts.
1923 dapplegrey lane series#
A modification of this story is afforded by the large class of Bluebeard tales."Īll the Virginia texts correspond much more closely with the Child series C-G (and Sargent and Kittredge H) than to A and B.
Child concludes "It is a supposition attended with less difficulty that an independent European tradition existed of a half-human, half-demonic being, who possessed an irresistible power of decoying away young maids, and was wont to kill them after he got them into his hands, but who at last found one who was more than his match, and lost his own life through her craft and courage. Space is also given to a consideration of the hypothesis that the ballad is a wild shoot from the story of Judith and Holofernes, with Holofernes the original of the Elf-Knight. Child's remarkable introduction to this ballad discusses at some length its extraordinary currency in the southern as well as the northern nations of Europe. In Virginia it does not, however, when compared with" Barbara Allen," "The House Carpenter" and several others quite live up to its reputation of having obtained the widest circulation of all ballads. Its polyonymity is almost equal to its ubiquity - twenty-eight variants under sixteen different titles. THIS ballad is one of the few most frequently found in Virginia, where variously known as "Pretty Polly," "The Seven King's Daughters," "King's Daughter," "The Pretty Gold Leaf," "The Salt Water Sea," "Miss Mary's Parrot," and under several other titles.
Single stanza with music from Davis, Traditional Ballads of Virginia 1929. My Father's Gold- Noel (VA) 1923 Davis S Bronson 24
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