Patufet is usually represented as a very small child the size of a
rice grain or a little
garbanzo bean, wearing a big red
barretina so that his parents can better spot him around the place. He is curious and mischievous, until one day he decides to show the world that he's useful and reliable. According to some versions Patufet was good-natured and hard-working from the beginning. The first task he sets about to do is to go to the shop to buy some
saffron. Since people can't see him because he's so small, he avoids being trodden on by singing, The people he meets only see a coin that walks and sings but he manages to accomplish his task. Afterwards he decides to go to the farm fields to take lunch to his father. But Patufet is not lucky: when it starts to rain he takes refuge under a cabbage where he fell asleep; after this he accidentally gets eaten by an
ox. His parents go about looking for him, calling
"Patufeeet, on eeets?" (Patufeeet, where are youuu?) and he replies from inside the
ox, After a while they hear Patufet's little voice and his parents feeds the ox with cabbages that make it fart faster. ==Influences==