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The crow that stole the narrator's pants when he is stripped down to attempt to drown himself in a river. The narrator ends up chasing the bird to retrieve the pants, and never does catch the bird or retrieve his pants.

The jester of fool shown here was a used in ancient kings courts to ridicule or belittle. This was an important theme in "Hop Frog" to show just how careless and cruel the king was.

The king's wine goblet serves as the straw that broke the camels back in the short story "Hop Frog." Hop Frog, the court jester, plotted revenge after the king threw wine from the goblet in Trippetta's face; all because she was trying to save Hop…

The actual oval portrait that takes the life of the wife, because the painter she marries is as much in love with this painting as he is with her. The wife ends up dying by the time he completes the painting.

This is the walking cane used by the narrator when the police were searching his basement for his wife. The narrator ends up giving away where his dead wife is located by tapping on the wall with it. The cat had also been sealed in the wall and…