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Fictional Characters Before 1800 #2

Most characters familiar to the general public were conceptualized fairly recently. Can you name these characters who were created before the year 1800?
For the most part, avoiding characters seen in religion and mythology
Some clues may apply to lesser-known characters as well; name the most well-known
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He pulled the sword from the stone
King Arthur
Wife of the above
Guinevere
Shot an apple off his son's head
William Tell
Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark
Hamlet
Found a genie in a lamp and married the sultan's daughter
Aladdin
Daniel Defoe wrote of this character being shipwrecked on an island for 28 years
Robinson Crusoe
See how they run; the farmer's wife cut off their tails with a carving knife
Three Blind Mice
He got caught spying on Lady Godiva's nude horseback ride
Peeping Tom
She told stories for 1,001 nights, leaving each one on a cliffhanger so the king would delay her execution by another day
Scheherazade
In British puppeteering, the wife of Mr. Punch
Judy
Personification of cold weather, often described "nipping" on one's nose or toes
Jack Frost
"Bohemian Rhapsody" addresses this character, asking if he can do the fandango
Scaramouche
Swashbuckling feline in footwear
Puss in Boots
In Central and Eastern European folklore, this beastly character punishes naughty children come Christmastime
Krampus
He wasn't paid for ridding the town of Hamelin of its rats, so he abducted the town's children
The Pied Piper
German scholar who gives his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge
Faust
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