Humbug and the White Cat, was translated from the work of Svend Grundtvig. American editor Horace Scudder wrote an abridged version of MMe. d'Aulnoy's tale in his work The Book of Fables and Folk Stories. In a Latvian fairy tale, The Palace of Cats, a lord has three sons, the older two smart ones and the third a simpleton. Seeing his sons fighting among themselves about who should inherit his properties, the lord decides to settle the dispute by ordering his sons to produce the most beautiful kerchief, the most beautiful wedding dress and the most beautiful bride. The simpleton is successful in all three tasks due to finding in the forest a palace of cats, its leader a white cat. The cat is, obviously, an enchanted princess, cursed into feline form. Adaptations A Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék ("Hungarian Folk Tales") (hu), with the title A macskacicó ("The Pussycat Princess"). See also Beauty and the Beast Doll i' the Grass The Frog Princess The Golden Bird Lord Peter (fairy tale) Puddocky The Three Feathers Rapunzel References Further references Farrell, Michèle L. "Celebration and Repression of Feminine Desire in Mme D'Aulnoy's Fairy Tale: "La Chatte Blanche"." L'Esprit Créateur 29, no. 3 (1989): 52-64. Accessed June 23, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/26285889. Nikolajeva, Maria. "Devils, Demons, Familiars, Friends: Toward a Semiotics of Literary Cats." Marvels & Tales 23, no. 2 (2009): 248-67. www.jstor.org/stable/41388926. External links Works by Madame d'Aulnoy French fairy tales Fictional cats Fiction about shapeshifting Fairies and sprites in popular culture Talking animals in fiction Animal tales ATU 400-459 ATU 300-399