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Jack and the Beanstalk
English fairy tale closely associated with the tale of "Jack the Giant Killer" / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale. It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734[1] and as Benjamin Tabart's moralized "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807.[2] Henry Cole, publishing under pen name Felix Summerly, popularized the tale in The Home Treasury (1845),[3] and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in English Fairy Tales (1890).[4] 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.[5]
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![]() Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1918, in English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel | |
Folk tale | |
Name | Jack and the Beanstalk |
Also known as | Jack and the Giant man |
Aarne–Thompson grouping | AT 328 ("The Treasures of the Giant") |
Country | United Kingdom |
Published in | Benjamin Tabart, The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk (1807) Joseph Jacobs, English Fairy Tales (1890) |
Related | "Jack the Giant Killer" |
"Jack and the Beanstalk" is the best known of the "Jack tales", a series of stories featuring the archetypal English hero and stock character Jack.[6]
According 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.[7]