"Cap-o'-Rushes" is an English fairy tale published by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales.
Jacobs gives his source as "Contributed by Mrs. Walter-Thomas to "Suffolk Notes and Queries" of the Ipswich Journal, published by Mr. Lang in Longman's Magazine, vol. xiii., also in Folk-Lore September, 1890". In the latter journal, Andrew Lang notes the folktale was "discovered" in the Suffolk notes by Edward Clodd.
Reading the story Cap O' Rushes is Paul Shortt.
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