Height of the biggest doll is
15.6 cm (6 1/8 inches).
"Puss in Boots" is a European Fairy tale, best known in the version collected by Charles Perrault in 1697 his Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose Tales) as "The Master Cat". The tale of a cat helping an impoverished master attain wealth through its trickery is known in hundreds of variants.
The oldest known written variant comes from Giovanni Francesco Straparola, "Costantino Fortunato" in magical helper common in folklore. Others, however, believe that Straparola himself invented the story.Another earlier version comes from 1634, by Giambattista Basile as "Cagliuso", also translated as "Pippo". Joseph Jacobs collected a variant, "The Earl of Cattenborough", in European Folk and Fairy Tales.
"Puss in Boots"
The division of property after a miller's death leaves his youngest son with nothing but the granary cat. Disappointed, the son contemplates eating the animal, but the cat bargains with him, promising him riches in return for a bag and a pair of boots.
Though dubious, the miller's son goes along with him and provides the items.Puss-in-Boots takes the bag and catches a succession of items of game - rabbits, partridges, etc. - which he takes to the palace and presents to the king as presents from his master, the "Marquis de Carabas". Eventually the cat learns that the king and his beautiful daughter will be travelling by the river road.
Puss-in-Boots tells the miller's son (who is ignorant of all this) to go and bathe in the river at the time that the royal party is due to pass. The boy does so, and as he bathes the cat steals his clothes, and runs to the road calling for help for his master, the Marquis de Carabas, who is drowning.
The boy is "rescued" from the river, and his lack of clothes is explained as the work of robbers. He is therefore wrapped in rich robes and driven off in the king's Coach.The cat speeds ahead of the king's party to the lands of a powerful ogre. He threatens the people working in its fields that they will be chopped to bits if they don't say that the fields belong to the Marquis of Carabas.
As the king's Coach reaches the ogre's lands, the king asks after the ownership of the fields, and is told that they belong to the Marquis de Carabas.
Puss-in-Boots goes ahead of the party, and confronts the ogre. He flatters the ogre on his magical shape-changing abilities and challenges him to turn into a mouse.
The moment the ogre does so, Puss-in-Boots eats him, thus claiming the palace and lands in his master's name.Upon reaching the ogre's palace, the royal party is welcomed by Puss-in-Boots in his master's name. The king marries the princess to the miller's son.In Straparola's version, there is no ogre; the castle belongs to a nobleman who happened to die on a journey, and as consequence, the deceit is never revealed.
In Perrault's version, "Puss became a personage of great importance, and gave up hunting mice, except for amusement".In Basile's and Jacobs's version, the miller's son had promised the cat to give him a funeral. The cat feigned death (in Basile's), or fell ill and looked dead (in Jacobs's).
The miller's son went to throw the body in the trash. Angry, the cat rebuked him. In Basile's version, the cat, despite the pleas of the miller's son, left him; in Jacobs's, only after the miller's son summoned a doctor for her illness and pled with her did she agree to remain.
