Hop-o'-My-Thumb
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Hop-o'-My-Thumb also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet, is one of the eight fairy tales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé, now world-renowned.
Illustration by Gustave Doré (1862)
Illustration by Gustave Doré, from Les Contes de Perrault (1862), depicting Hop-o'-My-Thumb hiding under a stool, listening to his parents as they discuss abandoning him and his brothers.
Hop-o'-My-Thumb with the sleeping ogre, as shown at the Efteling.
Hop-o'-My-Thumb, as shown at the Efteling.
Ogre
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An ogre is a legendary monster depicted as a large, hideous, humanoid being that eats ordinary human beings, especially infants and children. Ogres frequently feature in mythology, folklore, and ficti
Hop-o'-My-Thumb
…published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), now world-renowned. It is Aarne-Thompson type 327B, the small boy defeats the ogre (in other versions of this fairy tale the character is a giant). This type of fairytale, in the French oral tradition, is often combined with motifs…
Giovanni Lanfranco: Norandino and Lucina Discovered by the Ogre, oil on canvas, c. 1624
Puss in Boots before the ogre. One of the platters on the table serves human babies (illustrated by Gustave Doré).
Hop-o'-My-Thumb steals the ogre's seven-league boots (illustrated by Gustave Doré, 1862).
Puss in Boots before the ogre (illustrated by Walter Crane).