The White Fisher

The White Fisher

The White Fisher is Child ballad 264, existing in different variants.

ynopsis

A man tells his wife that they have been married only one month and asks why the child is quickening. The woman blames her pregnancy on a priest, or on a kitchen boy. When she gives birth, she tells her husband to toss the baby in the sea to drown, or, in some variants to sink or swim but not return to her without a white fish. Instead, he takes the baby to his mother and claims that he had a sweetheart over the sea, and this is his child. The wife grieves and refuses a drink from him, because having drowned her baby, he would poison her. He tells her that his mother has the child. In some variants, he tells her that she may see him as long as she does not call the child hers.

ee also

*Gil Brenton

External links

* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch264.htm "The White Fisher"]
* [http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiWHITFIS2.html "The White Fisher"]


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