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=== Child Ballads with their own page: === |
=== Child Ballads with their own page: === |
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* "[[Tam Lin]]" (#39) |
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=== Tropes common in the [[Child Ballad|Child Ballads]]: === |
=== Tropes common in the [[Child Ballad|Child Ballads]]: === |
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* [[Cycle of Revenge]] |
* [[Cycle of Revenge]] |
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* [[Damsel in Distress]] |
* [[Damsel in Distress]] |
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* [[Death |
* [[Death by Childbirth]] |
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* [[Death |
* [[Death by Sex]]: ''very'' common. |
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* [[Distressed Dude]] |
* [[Distressed Dude]] |
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* [[Downer Ending]]: Many ballads play this trope straight, others have endings that would have been considered [[Happy Ending|happy]] in days past, but fall short of the mark by today's standards. Some "happy endings" are [[Values Dissonance|pretty horrific]] to modern audiences. |
* [[Downer Ending]]: Many ballads play this trope straight, others have endings that would have been considered [[Happy Ending|happy]] in days past, but fall short of the mark by today's standards. Some "happy endings" are [[Values Dissonance|pretty horrific]] to modern audiences. |
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** Ballad 110, wherein we learn that if a young woman is raped and the perpetrator is single, she will be forced to marry her rapist, whether she wants to or not. |
** Ballad 110, wherein we learn that if a young woman is raped and the perpetrator is single, she will be forced to marry her rapist, whether she wants to or not. |
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* [[Due to |
* [[Due to the Dead]] |
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* [[Engagement Challenge]] |
* [[Engagement Challenge]] |
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* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: "Willie O'Winsbury" (Child #100) |
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: "Willie O'Winsbury" (Child #100) |
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* [[Flower Motifs]] |
* [[Flower Motifs]] |
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* [[Gold Digger]] |
* [[Gold Digger]] |
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* [[Hair of Gold]]: Always as "yellow hair" as in "[[ |
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Always as "yellow hair" as in "[[Tam Lin]]" (Child #39). |
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* [[Impossible Task]]: "Scarborough Fair" (Child #2) is pretty much the [[Trope Codifier]]. |
* [[Impossible Task]]: "Scarborough Fair" (Child #2) is pretty much the [[Trope Codifier]]. |
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* [[Infant Immortality]]: Often averted quite gruesomely, especially in "Lamkin" (Child #93) . |
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Often averted quite gruesomely, especially in "Lamkin" (Child #93) . |
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* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Evil shapeshifters will often have a [[Red Right Hand]] (e.g. "The House Carpenter", Child #243). Good shapeshifters are rare, but see "The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry" (Child #113). |
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: Evil shapeshifters will often have a [[Red Right Hand]] (e.g. "The House Carpenter", Child #243). Good shapeshifters are rare, but see "The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry" (Child #113). |
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* [[Wicked Stepmother]] |
* [[Wicked Stepmother]] |
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* [[A Year and |
* [[A Year and a Day]]: In "The Unquiet Grave" (Child #78) |
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* [[Youngest Child Wins]]: Sometimes played straight, sometimes subverted: in "The Twa Sisters" (Child #10), the elder ''kills'' the younger. |
* [[Youngest Child Wins]]: Sometimes played straight, sometimes subverted: in "The Twa Sisters" (Child #10), the elder ''kills'' the younger. |
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* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Combines well with [[Death |
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Combines well with [[Death by Sex]]. |
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