The following tales are similar to the Puss in Boots fairy tale, AT-545B. I have included the English language tales of this type which have been gathered by title by D. L. Ashliman in his A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. Sometimes I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Puss in Boots story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text is available on the internet.

Bukhtan Bukhtanovich
Caglioso (see Gagliuso)
Costantino Fortunato *
Count Piro *
Dame Cat; or, The Wedding Patron
Don Joseph Pear *
The Earl of Cattenborough *
Gagliuso *
The Gazelle *
The Gilded Fox
Giovanuzza the Fox
How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro
Lord Peter *
Mighty Mikko
The Miller and the Fox
The Poor Miller's Apprentice and the Cat *
Puss In Boots (France) *
Puss In Boots (Germany)
Puss In Boots (Italy) *
Squire Per

* Full text of tale is available online.

A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Afanasyev, Aleksandr. Russian Fairy Tales. Norbert Guterman, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
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A web version of this tale can be found at Costantino Fortunato.

This tale is AT-545B. This is one of the earliest literary versions of the tale, recorded by Giovan Francesco Straparola. Some versions are called 'Costantino Fortunato.'

An English language version is available in:

Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
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Straparola, Giovanni Francesco. The Facetious Nights by Straparola. W. G. Waters, translator. Jules Garnier and E. R. Hughes, illustrators. London: Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles, 1901. 4 volumes.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions. A web version of Andrew Lang's adaptation is available below under the title How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Gonzenbach, Laura. Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach. Jack Zipes, translator and editor. New York: Routledge, 2004.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-545B. The story comes from Greece.

An English language version is available in:

Bodker, Laurits; Hole, Christina; and D'Aronoco, G., eds. European Folk Tales. European Folklore Series, vol. 1. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1963.

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A web version of this tale can be found at Don Joseph Pear.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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A web version of this tale can be found at The Earl of Cattenborough.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Jacobs, Joseph, ed. European Folk and Fairy Tales. New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1916.

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A web version of this tale can be found at Gagliuso.

An alternate translation of Gagliuso is Caglioso which is favored by current scholars.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone. Benedetto Croce, translator. New York: Dutton, 1932. Day 2, Tale 4.

Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone, or The Story of Stories. John Edward Taylor, translator. London: David Bogue, 1850.

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A web version of this tale can be found at The Gazelle.

This tale is AT-545B. This tale comes is African and was adapted from a collection of Swahili tales.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Violet Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1966. (Original published 1901.)
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Delarue, Paul, ed. The Borzoi Book of French Folk Tales. Austin E. Fife, translator. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1956.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Calvino, Italo. Italian Folktales. George Martin, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
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A web version of this tale can be found at How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro.

This tale is AT-545B. It comes from Sicily.

An English language version is available in:

Lang, Andrew, ed. "How The Beggar Boy Turned Into Count Piro." The Crimson Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1967. (Original published 1903.)
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A web version of this tale can be found at Lord Peter.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Asbjornsen, Peter Christen and Moe, Jorgen. Norwegian Folk Tales. Pat Shaw Iverson and Carl Norman, translators. New York: Pantheon Books, 1960.
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Asbjornsen, Peter Christen and Moe, Jorgen. East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. George Webbe Dasent, translator. Popular Tales from the Norse. Edinburgh: David Douglass, 1888.

Also available in reprint under:
Dasent, George Webbe. East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. New York: Dover, 1970.
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Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Clarkson, Atelia, and Cross, Gilbert, B., eds. World Folktales: A Scribner Resource Collection. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Villa, Susie Hoogasian. 100 Armenian Tales. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1966.

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A web version of this tale can be found at The Poor Miller's Apprentice and the Cat.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Household Tales. Margaret Hunt, translator. London: George Bell, 1884.

Zipes, Jack.  The Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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A web version of this story is the one I have annotated at The Annotated Puss In Boots.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Cole, Joanna, ed. Best-Loved Folktales of the World. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.
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Lang, Andrew, ed. "Puss In Boots." The Blue Fairy Book. New York: Dover, 1965. (Original published 1889.)
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Massignon, Genevieve, ed. Folktales of France. Jacqueline Hyland, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-545B.

Note: The Grimms included the story in their first collection of tales, but later removed it in 1819 due to its obviously close relationship to Perrault's tale.

An English language version is available in:

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam, 1987.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Grimm's Other Tales. William Hansen, selector. Ruth Michael-Jenas and Arthur Ratcliff, translators. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1956.

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A web version of this story is available at Puss In Boots (Italy).

This tale is AT-545B.

Note that this version from Crane's Italian Popular Tales is taken from Straparola's The Facetious Nights, often titled 'Constantino Fortunato.'

An English language version is available in:

Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright restrictions.

This tale is AT-545B.

An English language version is available in:

Asbjornsen, Peter Christen and Moe, Jorgen. Norwegian Folk Tales. Pat Shaw Iverson and Carl Norman, translators. New York: Pantheon Books, 1960.
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