this article: Child's Ballads/44 "The Twa Magicians", "The Two Magicians", "The Lady and the Blacksmith", or "The Coal Black Smith" (Roud 1350, Child...

The popular American rock band The Horrible Crowes takes its name from "Twa Corbies". The song is featured in The Adventure Company's game Jack the Ripper...

the resolution of myths (as in many of the Metamorphoses) or produce origin myths. In many fairy tales and ballads, as in Child Ballad #44, The Twa Magicians...

"The Two Sisters" (also known by the Scots title "The Twa Sisters") is a traditional murder ballad, dating at least as far back as the mid 17th century...

Wikisource has original text related to this article: Child's Ballads/49 "The Twa Brothers" is a traditional ballad (Roud 38, Child 49) existing in many...

is the heroine of the Robin Hood legend in English folklore, often taken to be his lover. She is not mentioned in the early, medieval versions of the legend...

"The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an English ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 162 (Roud 223). There are two extant ballads under this title, both of which...

for "Hares on the Mountain" in his epic work Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads because he thought it was a version of The Twa Magicians (Child 44, Roud...

(also spelled Gisburne, Gisborne, Gysborne, or Gisborn) is a character from the Robin Hood legends of English folklore. He first appears in "Robin Hood and...

Sweet William's Ghost and some variants of The Twa Brothers. The motif that excessive grief can disturb the dead is found also in German and Scandinavian...