Johnny Cake

Joseph Jacobs published “Johnny-Cake“ in his English Fairy Tales (1890), basing his tale on a version found in the American Journal of Folk-Lore. This story is a re-telling of the original classic the Gingerbread Man. Jacobs’ johnny-cake rolls rather than runs, and the fox tricks him by pretending to be deaf and unable to hear his taunting verse. In “The Wee Bannock“ from More English Fairy Tales (1894), Jacobs records a Scottish tale with a bannock as hero.