Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk is an English fairy tale. It appeared as The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean in 1734 and as Benjamin Tabarts moralized The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk in 1807.Felix Summerly Henry Cole popularized the tale in The Home Treasury 1842 and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in English Fairy Tales 1890. Jacobs version is most commonly reprinted today and it is believed to be closer to the oral versions than Tabarts because it lacks the moralizing. Jack and the Beanstalk is the best known of the Jack tales a series of stories featuring the archetypal Cornish and English hero and stock character Jack. According to researchers at the universities in Durham and Lisbon the story originated more than 5000 years ago based on a widespread archaic story form which is now classified by folkorists as ATU 328 The Boy Who Stole Ogres Treasure,

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