The Mummy's Foot
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The Mummy's Foot (French: Le Pied de momie) is a horror short story by the French writer Théophile Gautier, first published in 1840. It relates the fantastical tale of a contemporary man and the adventures which befall him when he ventures into a Parisian curiosity shop and buys the four-thousand-year-old foot of Princess Hermonthis.
Plot summary
A man enters an
Xixouthros, is appropriately pleased that his daughter's foot is returned to the rest of her. Xixouthros asks what he can do in appreciation. The protagonist
asks Hermonthis' hand in marriage, which is refused, as he is only 27 and Hermonthis is over 30 centuries, and deserves someone who is equally durable. The protagonist is abruptly woken from this potential dream by the arrival of a friend. Now awake, he observes that the mummified foot that was on his desk has indeed been replaced by the statuette.
Adaptations
The story was adapted for television as part of the
NBC Television anthology series Your Show Time
, airing February 11, 1949.
External links
- The Mummy's Foot at Project Gutenberg
- The Mummy's Foot public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Your Show Time: The Mummy's Foot at IMDb