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The Gingerbread Man (also known as The Gingerbread Boy or The Gingerbread Runner) is a fairy tale about a gingerbread man's escape from various pursuers and his eventual demise between the jaws of a fox. The story is variety of the class of folk tales about runaway food, which are classified in the Aarne–Thompson classification system of traditional folktales as ''AT 2025: The Fleeing Pancake''.〔〔 A gingerbread boy as hero is a uniquely American contribution to the tale type.〔 The Gingerbread Boy makes his first print appearance in "The Gingerbread Boy" the May 1875 issue of ''St. Nicholas Magazine'' in a cumulative tale which, like "The Little Red Hen", depends on rhythm and repetition for its effect with one event following hard upon another until the climax is reached.〔(SurLaLune: "The Annotated Gingerbread Man." ) Retrieved 1 November 2008.〕 According to the author of the 1875 story (whose name is not known), "A servant girl from Maine told it to my children. It interested them so much that I thought it worth preserving. I asked where she found it and she said an old lady told it to her in her childhood." ==1875 story == In the 1875 St. Nicholas tale, a childless old woman bakes a gingerbread man who leaps from her oven and runs away. The woman and her husband give chase but fail to catch him. The Gingerbread man then outruns several farm workers and farm animals while taunting them with the phrase: : I've run away from a little old woman, : A little old man, : And I can run away from you, I can! The tale ends with a fox catching and eating the gingerbread man who cries as he's devoured, "I'm quarter gone...I'm half gone...I'm three-quarters gone...I'm all gone!" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Gingerbread Man」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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