Ha Mi Ow-mos En Gun Las (The Octopus)
DESCRIPTION: Cornish. "Ha mi ow-mos en gun las." A riddle: The singer went on the sea and heard the fishes. He found one fish with "nine tails." but none in St Ives or Marazion could capture it. The answer is apparently an octopus
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1698 (source: Deane/Shaw)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage fishing riddle
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Tony Deane and Tony Shaw _The Folklore of Cornwall_, B. T. Batsford, 1975, p. 80, "(Ha mi ow-mos en gun las')" (1 short Cornish text plus English translation)
File: DeSh090A
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