Johnny Cake

Joseph Jacobs published JohnnyCake in his English Fairy Tales (1890), basing his tale on a version found in the American Journal of FolkLore. This story is a retelling of the original classic the Gingerbread Man. Jacobs johnnycake 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.