<p>Cockatrice is made aware that he must not look at himself in a mirror, otherwise he will die. As he wants to admire his own beauty, he runs away and visits a painter to get a portrait of himself painted. To flatter him, the painter portrays him like an English gentleman. Blind-Boy finds Cockatrice and takes him away with him without paying the painter. Blind-boy tells Cockatrice that Columbus the Parrot and himself met a very old man named Old Man Adam, who owns a donkey, a table, and a stick which have magical powers. All three of them go to Old Man Adam’s house, and Old Man Adam gives them the objects as presents as they will lose their magical powers should they not change owners.</p>

String marionette

Not specified

Craig Edward Gordon

Italy

Marina di Pisa

Printed

Portrait

Magic

Enchanted object

Wealth

Forest

Meals

Donkey

Mirror

Narcissism

Runaway

Magical words

Thief

Father

Fantasy

Comical

English

Cockatrice

Basilic

Blind Boy

Blind

Parrot

Columbus

Pretty Polly

Painter

Adam

The Magic Donkey

Table

Stick

Monologue

Hidden character

Blind character

The Painter and the Three Magics

Le Peintre et les trois objets magiques