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Hop-o'-My-Thumb

by Charles Perrault

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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 (1697), now world-renowned. It is Aarne-Thompson type 327B, the small boy defeats the ogre. This type of fairytale, in the French oral tradition, is often combined with motifs from the type 327A, similar to Hansel and Gretel; one such tale is The Lost Children.

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