After escaping one situation with the help of a fish and a butterfly, this character is captured by a cockchafer while traveling downstream in a lilypad boat. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this character who avoids marriage to a nasty mole by flying away with a swallow she helped rehabilitate while working as a domestic servant for a field mouse.
ANSWER: Thumbelina
[10h] In Hans Christian Andersen’s version, Thumbelina is born from one of these plants after her mother plants it at the insistence of a witch. An English folk song titled for a personification of this crop mentions his kinsmen Sir William White Wine and Thomas Good Ale.
ANSWER: barley [or barleycorn; accept John Barleycorn]
[10e] Thumbelina is first put in peril when she is kidnapped by one of these animals who seeks a wife for her son. One of these animals transforms into a prince after kissing a princess in a Brothers Grimm tale.
ANSWER: frog [or toad; accept “The Frog Prince”]
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