<P> In some versions of the tale, the giant is unnamed, but many plays based on it name him Blunderbore . (One giant of that name appears in the 18th - century "Jack the Giant Killer".) In "The Story of Jack Spriggins" the giant is named Gogmagog . </P> <P> The giant's cry "Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman" appears in William Shakespeare's early - 17th - century King Lear in the form "Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man ." (Act 3, Scene 4), and something similar also appears in "Jack the Giant Killer". </P> <P> "Jack and the Beanstalk" is an Aarne - Thompson tale - type 328, The Treasures of the Giant, which includes the Italian "Thirteenth" and the French "How the Dragon was Tricked" tales . Christine Goldberg argues that the Aarne--Thompson system is inadequate for the tale because the others do not include the beanstalk, which has analogies in other types (a possible reference to the genre anomaly .) </P> <P> The Brothers Grimm drew an analogy between this tale and a German fairy tale, "The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs". The devil's mother or grandmother acts much like the giant's wife, a female figure protecting the child from the evil male figure . </P>

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