SELECT THE MISSING FAIRY TALE FROM THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIONS:

• A young orphaned girl is so poor she only has half a pair of shoes. A friend gives her an actual pair of shoes as a gift. She becomes not only a mentor and tutor to children, she grows up to become a wise teacher, helping adults learn peaceful techniques for resolving quarreling and promoting tolerance. Through her acts of charity and benevolence, she is carried from her humble station in life and becomes a lady of means.

• A diminutive boy steals seven-league boots from a wicked ogre. Borrowed from Italian legends of the fifteenth century, these magic boots, which instantly shrink to fit their owner, crop up again in legends of Jack the Giant-Killer

• A masterful, quick-witted cat who needs only proper footwear to gain fame and fortune for his master, a poverty-stricken miller’s son who becomes the fabled “Marquis of Carabas.”

• A shoemaker’s wife gives a poor little girl clumsy red cloth shoes, and having no others, the child wears them to her mother’s funeral. Later, when told to have shoes made for confirmation, the child takes advantage of her guardian’s dim eyesight and orders red shoes. Not only does she wear them to confirmation, but also, though forbidden to do so, to communion. The devil in disguise puts a curse on the shoes. The child wears the red shoes to a ball, instead of attending her guardian’s death bed, and is then forced to dance endlessly, not able to take the red shoes off, until she begs the executioner to rid her of them...

• A girl who isn't nice, who is a bad person, uses a loaf of bread for a stepping-stone across a bog in order to keep her shoes dry and clean . As a punishment for her pride and ingratitude, she is sucked down into a hellish life in the swamp, only to be released many years later by the prayers and tears of others, who repent their own ingratitude for God’s gifts.

• The shoes of a king’s beautiful daughters appear mysteriously worn out each morning, though the girls have been safely locked in their room all night. Though offered a great reward, no one can solve the riddle of the worn-out shoes, until a poor soldier resists the sleeping potion the princesses give him. He stays awake and is able to spy on their secret midnight ball, thus solving the riddle and winning one of the Princesses for a bride.

• Fairies naively provide a magic pair of boots to create happiness: merely to put them on allows the wearer to become anyone or be anywhere he wishes. As one opportunistic or absent-minded person after another helps himself to the boots, he finds himself living a dream –- or rather, a nightmare. Each discovers the wisdom of being merely himself, in his own time. When the last shuddering victim escapes the boots, they are claimed by the fairy “Sorrow,” who feels they most fittingly belong to her.

• A worthy shoemaker, through no fault of his own, becomes poor. Though he has nothing in the world except leather for one pair of shoes, he lays himself down after prayers and sleeps soundly, because his conscience is clear. The next morning, and on subsequent mornings, he finds the leather beautifully sewn into shoes, and is able to sell them at increasing profits. Anxious to learn about his benefactor, he and his wife hide one night, and spy two little elves who rush in, naked, do the work and rush out. To thank the elves, the shoemaker makes a pair of shoes and his wife sews a warm little outfit for each of them. On finding the clothes, the elves dance with joy and renounce work, stating “Now we look so fine and dandy, no more need to work and be so handy!” They never appear again. “But the shoemaker continued to be prosperous until the end of his life and succeeded in all his endeavours.”

• A 1794 English Nursery rhyme about a woman and children living in a shoe

 

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