"Child Owlet" is Child Ballad 291 and a murder ballad. It was performed by English folk rock band Steeleye Span on their 2004 album They Called Her Babylon...

The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second...

advances at many of her foster children before Joseph. In the ballad Child Owlet, Lady Erskine propositions her nephew, and upon rebuttal accuses him...

The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published...

Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 – September 11, 1896) was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of...

named as "Marian Fitzwalter", only child of the Earl of Huntingdon, is the Maid Marian In Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Child Ballad 150, perhaps dating to the...

(2020) Edyf (2022) The Bitter (2024) "The Wife of Usher's Well" (2023) "Child Owlet" (2024) "'It's learning to make sense of the mess of lines in front of...

modern English. Both versions were later published by Francis James Child as Child ballad #120 in his influential collection of popular ballads. In Robin...

English folklore. He first appears in "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne" (Child Ballad 118), where he is an assassin who attempts to kill Robin Hood but...

adapted into numerous stories, songs and films. It is listed as the 39th Child Ballad and number 35 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Most variants begin with...