In The Nutcracker ballet, the Mouse King is a formidable creature often depicted with seven heads, mimicking the rare phenomenon of a Rat King, which occurs when multiple rat tails become entangled.
The character of the Mouse King is sometimes depicted as multi-headed in productions of the Tchaikovsky ballet The Nutcracker, based on Alexandre Dumas’ novella adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s novella, The Nutcracker and The Mouse King.
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