| Redvers Brandling - Education - 2000 - 260 pages
...Two lines from the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' also had a very sinister meaning at this time: Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. It was actually thought that one baker ground human bones to use as an ingredient in his... | |
| Kathryn Ann Lindskoog - Humor - 2000 - 156 pages
...bad news indeed. I knew that a giant roars "Fee, fie, fo, fum; I smell the blood of an Englishman! Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." So I hoped God wouldn't climb down the beanstalk and catch me for a long time. I wished... | |
| Mary Westmacott - Fiction - 2001 - 660 pages
...it. ... But there's more than that. There's its food. "Fee, fie, fo, fum, I smell the blood of mortal Man. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. " A cruel giant, genius, Levinne! A monster feeding on flesh and blood. I know nothing about... | |
| Milo Kearney, Manuel Medrano - England - 2001 - 264 pages
...folk tale presents a man-eating giant who shouts, Fee-fie-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. 1 Some rhymes hearken back to early religious beliefs. One details the gifts of various pagan... | |
| Kathy Reichs - Fiction - 2001 - 370 pages
...overrode fear. "You egotistical, demented prick." "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." At a distance, the skeleton moaned, cackled. I was confronted by madness! Who was this man?... | |
| Thomas T. K. Zung - Architecture - 2001 - 424 pages
...flourish. FIFTEENTH-TO-NINETEENTH-CENTURY GIANTS' OATH Fee-fie-fo-fum I smell the blood of a Britishman Be he alive or be he dead I'll grind his bones To make my bread TWENTIETH-TO-TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY GIANTS' OATH We-Fort-five-hun Steal kudos and credit American... | |
| Maria Tatar - Fiction - 2002 - 488 pages
...of a Brittish man." The verse was first uttered by the two-headed Welsh giant Thunderdel: "Fee, fau, fum, / I smell the blood of an English man, / Be he...alive, or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." he reached the sky. And when he got there he found a long broad road going as straight as... | |
| Rebecca McClanahan - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 220 pages
...of a hand, and crammed the whole thing into my mouth, surprised to discover bones beneath the skin. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread My teeth were white and strong and even. We'd recently had corn on the cob tor dinner, and... | |
| C. L. Bevill - Fiction - 2002 - 316 pages
...opportunity. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1$-SuNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Fe fi fo fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman; Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread. FE Fi Fo FUM! MIGNON SPENT THE FOLLOWING day preparing for the cleansing ceremony. When she... | |
| Patricia C. Wrede - Juvenile Fiction - 2002 - 276 pages
...that shook the torches in their brackets: "Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Ballimore shook her head. "Nonsense, dear. It's just Princess Cimorene and the King of the... | |
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