seven league boots
Magical distance-covering footwear
Seven league boots are magical footwear from European folklore that allow the wearer to cover seven leagues—about twenty-one miles—with each step.
The boots appear in fairy tales and adventure stories, most famously in the tale of Hop-o'-My-Thumb.
The phrase now evokes any means of rapid travel or dramatic advancement: Technology has given the industry seven league boots.
- magicalPossessing supernatural power
- stridingWalking with long steps
- fairy taleMagical children's narrative
- once upon a timeTraditional narrative opening
- speedRate of motion
fast travel · enchanted · travel · folklore · ogre · distance · swift · bounding · adventure · quest · running · escape · sorcery · Tom Thumb · Charles Perrault · leather · cobbler · wish
- Fictional ObjectsExcalibur, magic carpet, invisibility cloak, Mjolnir, One Ring
- magical artifactsamulet, talisman, wand, grimoire, spellbook
- enchanted footwearruby slippers, glass slippers, winged sandals, golden slippers, silver shoes
seven league bootsball and chain
Fetter limiting prisoner movement
leg irons · concrete shoes · ankle weights · snail's pace · shackles
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