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back to the living for that very purpose (Ch 20. 74)! Fewer are (he remorseful "offenders"
spontaneously confessing their guilt (Ch 84,173.213), thus denouncing themselves.
Ch # OffENDER OffENDED DENOUNCER
20 25ch 2SchRev (The Cruel Mother)
49 H HB HB (The Two BrOlhers)
73 H 5 5 (Lord Thomas and Fair A.)
74 H S SRev (Fair Marg. and Sweet Will.)
81 S H H (Lady Barnard and Little M.)
83 S 55n H (Child Maurice)
84 5 H 5 (Bonny Barbara Allen)
173 S rSch)' S (Mary Hamilton)
213 S H 5 (Sir James the Ross)
295 5 H H (The Brown Girl)
The abbreviations are:
II : hero
S : heroine
liB : H's brother
5ch, 55n, SRev, SchRev : S's children, S'son, S'revenanl, S'children's revenants
II : not explicit in the local version of the type
13.6. Ballad IIcro(in)es as "Offended"
The other major group into which the corpus can be divided gathers those lypes in
which the hero(in}es act in the role of "offended," as victims and no longer perperrators of
the offence. As such, the protagonists of this group, apparently, lose all responsibility in
their demise. One subgroup includes the types in which the offence is committed against
the hero{in)es by a third character; another groups the types in which the offence inflicted
upon the hero{in)es proceeds from a circumstance independent of any human will.
IThe brackets indicate that infanticide, which is the mOlive of the heroine's condemnation
in other Anglo-American versions of the ballad. is not ex:plicit in this single version from
Newfoundland.