Nesbit's " The Enchanted Castle," George Eliot’s “ The Mill On The Floss,” Lewis's The Pilgrim's Regress, Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic, The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Jenny Nimmo's Midnight for Charlie Bone, Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle, Evelyn Waugh's " The Loved One," E.
Britain – Jack the Giant Killer, John Masefield's The Midnight Folk, C.S.Norway – Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe - Soria Moria Castle.France – Charles Perrault's - Hop o' My Thumb, Madame d'Aulnoy's The Bee and the Orange Tree, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.Germany – Sweetheart Roland, Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Schlemiel, Goethe's Faust ( Mephistopheles uses them at the start of Part Two, Act Four ), Wilhelm Hauff's " Der Kleine Muck".Mention of the legendary boots are found in: The boots are often presented by a magical character to the protagonist to aid in the completion of a significant task.
The boots allow the person wearing them to take strides of seven leagues per step, resulting in great speed.
Seven-league boots are an element in European folklore. Hop-o'-My-Thumb stealing the Seven-league boots from the Ogre, by Gustave Doré
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