The myth of Jack and the Beanstalk is found not only among people of Aryan descent, but also among the Zulus of South Africa, and again among the American Indians.
The myth of Jack and his Beanstalk is found all over the world; but the idea of a country above the sky, to which persons might gain access by climbing, is one which could hardly fail to occur to every barbarian.
Jack climbed up the beanstalk the giant flicked him off with one finger.
Jack's last words to his army just before climbing the beanstalk will be, "If you strike a giant you must kill him.
The tradition that Jack goes up the beanstalk and kills his giant, and that Little Red Ridinghood has the better of the wolf, and many other stories are limited in their inspirational quality by the fact that they are not true.
The first dark night Jack climbed the beanstalk again, but he took along the fifty.
The ogre felt thebeanstalk shake and quiver so he stopped to see what was the matter.
And his mother came rushing out with the axe in her hand, but when she came to the beanstalk she stood stock still with fright for there she saw the ogre just coming down below the clouds.
Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.
But Jack jumped down and got hold of the axe and gave a chop at the beanstalk which cut it half in two.
For the Beanstalk elsewhere, see Ralston, Russian Folk Tales, 293-8.
The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack's window, so all he had to do was to open it and give a jump on to the beanstalk which was made like a big plaited ladder.
But that was all Jack heard, for he rushed off to the beanstalk and climbed down like a house on fire.
Then Jack gave another chop with the axe, and the beanstalk was cut in two and began to topple over.
When he got to the beanstalk the ogre was not more than twenty yards away when suddenly he saw Jack disappear like, and when he got up to the end of the road he saw Jack underneath climbing down for dear life.
The beanstalk began to totter; he felt himself falling, and leapt for the tower.
Then he almost fell down the beanstalk in his hurry.
As soon as Jack reached the beanstalk he called out: "Someone quick!
My beans have grown into a beautiful beanstalk ladder that reaches to the sky!
Sure enough, the Knight had stopped growing, and it was all they could do to hold him down to earth, for the stubborn branch of beanstalk was trying to straighten up.
And would you believe it--the beanstalk at that minute burst into a perfect shower of red blossoms that came tumbling down over everyone.
The gray-skinned courtiers were eyeing him expectantly, and just as the suspense became almost unendurable, the old man threw up his arms and cried sharply: "The prophecy of the magic beanstalk has been fulfilled.
The prophecy of the beanstalk has promised that you would save us.
In one hand he clutched a small fan, and in the other a parasol that had snapped off the beanstalk just before he reached the palace roof.
The Knight carefully explained how he had plucked a handful of red beans from the beanstalk just before reaching the top of the tube and how he had eaten one.
All these things Jack managed to steal, one at a time, and brought them down the beanstalkwith him.
He came clambering down the beanstalk after the lad, and would have killed us both without doubt, but Jack ran in and got a hatchet and chopped down the beanstalk.
The child knows nothing about these forces or laws: it is a sort of a Jack- and-the-Beanstalk world.
The beanstalk can grow any number of feet over night in the world in which the child lives.
The Beanstalk myth is one which is found among so many peoples in such widely distant regions, and it deals with ideas of such importance, that no contribution to its history can be considered valueless.
When he got to the beanstalk the ogre was not more than twenty yards away when suddenly he saw Jack disappear-like, and when he came to the end of the road he saw Jack underneath climbing down for dear life.
The ogre felt the beanstalk shake and quiver, so he stopped to see what was the matter.
The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack's window, so all he had to do was to open it and give a jump on to the beanstalk, which ran up just like a big ladder.
But Jack jumped down and got hold of the ax and gave a chop at the beanstalk which cut it half in two.
Why, the beans his mother had thrown out of the window into the garden, had sprung up into a bigbeanstalk which went up and up and up till it reached the sky.
Then Jack gave another chop with the ax, and the beanstalk was cut in two and began to topple over.
And his mother came rushing out with the ax in her hand, but when she came to the beanstalk she stood stock still with fright, for there she saw the ogre with his legs just through the clouds.
Suppose that you are confronted with the statement that Jack climbed up the beanstalk into the sky.
It is as if I (being entirely ignorant of botany and chemistry) said that thebeanstalk grew to the sky because nitrogen and argon got into the subsidiary ducts of the corolla.
You must interpret him in terms of the beanstalk religion; you cannot merely interpret religion in terms of him.
So while his mother was away at market, he climbed up, and up, and up, and up, until he got to the top of the beanstalk again.
Jack had no sooner reached the ground than he cut the beanstalkright in two.
Then Jack crept out, snatched up the two bags, and though the giant's dog barked loudly, he made his way down the beanstalk back to the cottage before the giant awoke.
We think a father entirely pure and benevolent when he tells his children that a beanstalk grew up into heaven, and a pumpkin turned into a coach.
We should consider that he lapsed from purity and benevolence if he told his children that in walking home that evening he had seen a beanstalk grow half-way up the church, or a pumpkin grow as large as a wheelbarrow.
I shouldn't have been surprised had I found myself climbing the beanstalk after Jack.
He seems to think that the world should have been built on a sort of Jack-and-the-beanstalk principle.
Jack and the beanstalk is only a fairy-story and the mango-tree is a piece of Oriental trickery; there is no room for such prodigies in a world like this.
It was merely another phase of his Jack-and-the-beanstalk philosophy.
He was half-way down when Jack took his hatchet and cut the beanstalk down, close to its roots.
His mother begged Jack not to climb the beanstalk again.
But you showed an inquiring mind, and great courage and enterprise, therefore you deserve to rise; and when you mounted the Beanstalk you climbed the Ladder of Fortune.
If you had looked at the gigantic Beanstalk and only stupidly wondered about it,' she said, 'I should have left you where misfortune had placed you, only restoring her cow to your mother.
Jack asked the Fairy if she would show him the way to the castle, as the Beanstalk was now down.
So he climbed the Beanstalk once more, and blew the horn at the Giant's gate.
A crystal stream ran through the pastures; not far from the place where he had got off the Beanstalkstood a fine, strong castle.
Jack made another journey up the Beanstalk to the Giant's castle one day while his mother had gone to market; but first he dyed his hair and disguised himself.
This accident gave Jack time to get on the Beanstalk and hasten down it; but just as he reached their own garden he beheld the Giant descending after him.
If he had not drunk so much wine for supper, the ogre must very soon have caught Jack; but as it was, the wine had got into his head, and so he could not run nearly so fast as usual, and Jack reached the beanstalk just in front of him.
For many months Jack and his mother lived happily together; but after a while the money came to an end, and Jack made up his mind to climb the beanstalk again, and carry off some more of the ogre's treasures.
The ogre came tumbling down the beanstalk after him; but Jack seized the axe and chopped the beanstalkoff close to the root.
Jack slid down the beanstalk at his top speed, calling at the top of his voice for his mother to fetch him an axe.
He tried to run after Jack, but Jack got to the top of the beanstalk first.
Jack and the Beanstalk At some distance from London, in a small village, lived a widow and her son, whose name was Jack.
It was easy work, for the big beanstalk with the leaves growing out of each side was like a ladder; for all that he soon was out of breath.
He reflected with sorrow on his disobedience in climbing the beanstalk against her will, and concluded that he must die of hunger.
He became thoughtful, would arise at the first dawn of day, and would view the beanstalk for hours together.
In a few mornings after this, he rose very early, changed his complexion, and, unperceived by any one, climbed the beanstalk a second time.
He easily found his way to the beanstalk and descended it better and quicker than he had expected.
Jack’s mother was delighted when she saw the beanstalk destroyed.
The moment Jack got down the beanstalk he called out for a hatchet, and one was brought him directly.
Just at that instant the giant was beginning to descend, but Jack with his hatchet cut the beanstalk close off at the root, which made the giant fall headlong into the garden.
On his way to the top of the beanstalk he found himself greatly incommoded with the weight of the money bags, and, really, they were so heavy he could scarcely carry them.
By my power the beanstalk grew to so great a height and formed a ladder.
And after that Billy Bunny opened his knapsack and took out an American flag and put it on the top of the beanstalk so that all the people in the aeroplane could see it and say "Hip-hur-ray for the U.
And this made Mrs. Eagle very happy and Mr. Eagle very proud, and he helped the two little rabbits to climb down the beanstalk in time for me to write what they did in the next story, which will be about an adventure in the Friendly Forest.
If you had looked at the giganticBeanstalk and only stupidly wondered about it," she said, "I should have left you where misfortune had placed you, only restoring her cow to your mother.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beanstalk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corpse; shadow; skeleton; slim; twiggy
