The Mummy's Foot

The Mummy's Foot

Infobox short story
name = The Mummy's Foot
title_orig = Le Pied de momie
translator = Lafcadio Hearn
author = Théophile Gautier
country = France
language = French
genre = Gothic fiction
published_in = Le Musée des familles
publication_type = periodical
publisher =
media_type =
pub_date = September 1840
english_pub_date =

"The Mummy's Foot" ( _fr. Le Pied de momie) is a gothic 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 three thousand year old foot of Princess Hermonthis.

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