A genderbent version of this character storms out after learning that her ungrateful master planned to throw her dead body out a window in a Giambattista Basile tale. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this compassionate fae who feigns the drowning of “Lucky Constantino” so that he can marry the princess. In another tale, this character dresses up a poor miller’s son as the Marquis of Carabas.
ANSWER: Puss in Boots [or Der gestiefelte Kater, Il gatto con gli stival, le Maître chat, or Le Chat botté; accept Master Cat; prompt on Cat as a Helper] (“Lucky Constantino” is by Giovanni Straparola. The Marquis of Carabas is from Perrault’s account.)
[10e] In Perrault’s (“peh-ROH’s”) account, Puss consumes an ogre in the guise of this animal to secure a castle for the Marquis. Six of these animals transform into dapple gray horses in Perrault’s version of “Cinderella.”
ANSWER: mouse [or mice]
[10m] In another Perrault tale, a character named “Hop on My [this object]” tricks an ogre into killing his daughters by exchanging their crowns with nightcaps. A Round Table knight named for this object dies from a spider-bite.
ANSWER: thumb [accept Hop on My Thumb, Hop o’ My Thumb, Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, Little Poucet, Le petit Poucet; accept Tom Thumb]
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