The Mummy’s Foot and Other Stories by Theophile Gautier, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

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The Mummy’s Foot – the title story in this collection – is a gothic tale, published in French as Le Pied de Momie. It relates the adventures of a man who buys the 3,000 year old foot of Princess Hermonthis in a Parisian curio shop. Gautier has a fascination with Ancient Egypt as well as an obsession with mortality, decay, and the passage of time.