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1º_ It is a name that is used to call a cat. Although there is a popular tradition that supposes him the father of all cats because he traveled on the Ark and was saved from the Universal Flood, he actually has his literary origin in "Maese Zapirón or The Cat in Boots." ("Le Maître chat ou le Chat botté", "The Master Cat or the Cat in Boots", Charles Perrault, 1697) which is actually a version of an old Italian folk tale about this cat, baptized Zapirón in the Spanish version, which with a series of deceptions gets its owner to marry the king's daughter. This word is an augmentative of the interjection "Zape!" to scare away cats, which apparently today only Moroccans use. 2º_ The poet Félix de Samaniego paid homage to him in his fable "Los Gatos escrupulosos" (1781), along with another literary cat such as the Micifuf de la "Gatomaquia" (Lope de Vega, 1634). See Zapaquilda . 3º_ It is also the Spanish name of the Japanese video game character 12496; 12531; 12479; 12512; , ( Bantamu "bantamother in boxing") which, of course, is a cat. 4º_ For the above, it is the name of several feline characters in stories, films, songs, . . .
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