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The Once and Future King influenced The Sword in the Stone
Added by Media Influence Map · 26 September 2026
The influence
The Once and Future King
Book · 1938
The work it shaped
The Sword in the Stone
Animation · 1963
The evidence
Disney's film adapts The Sword in the Stone (1938), the first part of White's sequence: the Wart's education by Merlin, his transformations into a fish, a squirrel and a bird, the wizards' duel with Madam Mim, and the drawing of the sword.
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