Patten (shoe) walk in, and despite their practical intention, literary evidence suggests that they could appear, at least to males, as a further aspect of feminine frailty and dependency. Samuel Pepys recorded in his Diary for January 24, 1660: From the "Middle Period" Poems of John Clare (1820s): From Thomas Hardy's "The Woodlanders" of 1887, though set earlier in the century: The word could also be used as a term for a wooden soled shoe, that is a chopine or clog, as opposed to an overshoe, until at least the nineteenth century. The word was also used for the traditional wooden outdoor
The Enchanted Pig him in it. They set out to his father's kingdom, and then return to her father's kingdom. An opera partly based on the tale, "The Enchanted Pig", by the composer Jonathan Dove, was premiered in 2006. The Enchanted Pig The Enchanted Pig ("Porcul cel fermecat") is a Romanian fairy tale, collected in "Rumanische Märchen" and also by Petre Ispirescu in "Legende sau basmele românilor". Andrew Lang included it in "The Red Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 425A, the search for the lost husband. Others of this type include The Black Bull of Norroway, The Brown Bear of Norway, The