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Chapter 6

III.—Our Lady's Child

Story radicals Story accidentals Added features Modern gloss

1. Savage elements — Naked forest woman captured for wife

Suspicion that she is a cannibal — —

3. Rank and splendour — — — Virgin Mary and heaven the central features of the heroine's adventures

4. Moral characteristics Punishment for curiosity — — —