The figure of the fairy appeared before Perrault's tale. The first known appearance was in the "chanson de geste" "Les Prouesses et faitz du noble Huon de Bordeaux": the elf-king Oberon appears only dwarfish in height and explains to Huon that an angry fairy cursed him to that size at his christening. Madame d'Aulnoy had them appear in her fairy tales "The Hind in the Wood" and "The Princess Mayblossom". Although their role in her tales had significant differences from "Sleeping Beauty", the wicked fairy of that tale receives the name "Carabosse". The first reference to Carabosse in "Sleeping Beauty" appears in Marius Petipa's ballet "Sleeping Beauty" with music by Tchaikovsky. It has since been customary to name her as such. In the fairy tale The Blue Bird she is referred to as Mazilla.