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    Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Hop-on-My-Thumb), or Hop o' My Thumb, also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet (French: Le Petit Poucet), is one...
    10 KB (1,124 words) - 19:34, 29 December 2023
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    Sprīdītis (Latvia) and others. Hop-o'-My-Thumb General Tom Thumb Thumbelina Tom Thumb locomotive Erkenek Issun-bōshi "Tom Thumb's grave, Tattershall church"...
    19 KB (2,676 words) - 22:43, 31 May 2024
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    ogres in folklore include the ogre in "Puss in Boots" and the ogre in "Hop-o'-My-Thumb". Other characters sometimes described as ogres include the title character...
    14 KB (1,467 words) - 06:02, 8 June 2024
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    P.T. Barnum. A few of the melodramas that Stratton performed were Hop o' My Thumb and the Seven League Boots. In these melodramas, Stratton was assigned...
    17 KB (1,961 words) - 03:26, 25 May 2024
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    stones and crumbs, already found in the French "Finette Cendron" and "Hop-o'-My-Thumb" (1697), represents "an elaboration of the motif of the thread that...
    36 KB (4,597 words) - 01:48, 9 June 2024
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    of the legendary boots are found in: France – Charles Perrault's – Hop o' My Thumb, Madame d'Aulnoy's The Bee and the Orange Tree, Marcel Proust’s In...
    6 KB (604 words) - 04:36, 22 May 2024
  • defeats the ogre. Others of this type include "Esben and the Witch" and "Hop o' My Thumb". Other tales using these motifs include "Jack and the Beanstalk" and...
    8 KB (1,149 words) - 03:13, 24 May 2024
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    as the Pearl Fairy in The Goldfish. She played Hop opposite Barry Lupino as Smilo in Hop O' My Thumb (1911) and Little Peter in Passers By (1911) by...
    3 KB (323 words) - 11:24, 11 March 2024
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    and Toads" (Les Fées), "Cinderella", "Riquet with the Tuft", and "Hop o' My Thumb". Each story ended with a rhymed, well-defined and cynical moral (moralité)...
    22 KB (2,861 words) - 11:05, 4 June 2024
  • The Lost Children combines with that type several motifs typical of Hop o' My Thumb, which is typical of French variants. A couple, Jacques and Toinon...
    3 KB (427 words) - 01:24, 9 May 2023
  • Children's literature portal Italy portal Bluebeard Hansel and Gretel Hop-o'-My-Thumb Puss in Boots Rapunzel Snow White The Adventures of Pinocchio The Four...
    3 KB (371 words) - 01:44, 11 April 2024
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    (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty) Petit Poucet: Très modéré (Little Tom Thumb / Hop-o'-My-Thumb) Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes: Mouvt de marche (Little...
    10 KB (980 words) - 14:50, 23 April 2024
  • Little Thumb may refer to: Little Thumb (Antarctica), a rock tower in Graham Land, Antarctica Hop-o'-My-Thumb, hero of one of the eight fairytales published...
    259 bytes (69 words) - 21:15, 1 May 2024
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    considered a literary variant of fairy tales such as Water and Salt and Cap O' Rushes. The tale itself resurfaced in Western literature in the 16th and...
    101 KB (12,010 words) - 16:20, 27 May 2024
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    California film business. Guinan appeared as Zaza in the variety show Hop-o'-My-Thumb, based on a French fairytale of the same name. The show opened at the...
    40 KB (3,794 words) - 15:51, 31 May 2024
  • Islands Thumb Bandits, video game TV show Thumb Candy, video game TV show Hop-o'-My-Thumb, a folk tale Rule of thumb, an informal rule Thumb signal, a...
    2 KB (325 words) - 21:27, 2 December 2022
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    Daisy had a long career in pantomime, appearing as Queen Zaza in "Hop-O'-My-Thumb" at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane production in 1911. The cast also...
    7 KB (707 words) - 15:56, 27 September 2023
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    "Daughter broth", as he comments triumphantly. In the French tale Hop-o'-My-Thumb it is an ogre rather than a witch who tries to eat children. In the...
    67 KB (8,610 words) - 16:00, 6 June 2024
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    (1844) (with Mark Lemon) Scenes from the Rejected Comedies (1844) Hop O' My Thumb (1844) (written as POZ) Comic Blackstone (1844) Timour; or, The Cream...
    5 KB (626 words) - 19:17, 22 April 2024
  • abandoned in fairy tales, while poverty may be cited as a cause, as in Hop o' My Thumb, also called Thumbelina, the most common effect is when poverty is...
    52 KB (6,471 words) - 22:32, 18 April 2024
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