Years ago my mother read the chronicles of Narnia to me. At the time we talked about the obvious Christian allegory, but my mum was insistent that the books contained a number of Easter eggs relating to nursery rhymes and folk tales.

for instance:

1. When Peter fights Maugrim in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe she thought it was an allusion to the “Peter and the Wolf” folk tale. (Beyond the name, I’m not sure there is much similarity here.)

2. When the mice eat the chords that bind Aslan to the stone table, she insisted this was an allusion to “The Lion and the mouse” folk story. (To the ending where the mouse eats through the chords of the net where the lion is trapped by the hunter.)

3. When Reepicheep has his tail cut off at the end of Prince Caspian, she said this was an allusion to the nursery rhymes “Three Blind Mice”.

4. I have heard other people say that Prince Caspian is an allusion to Hamlet (though I hear this claim for any story about a Prince whose father was murdered and had the throne usurped, so I feel this is pretty loose).

My question was does anyone think these allusions were intended by Lewis and if so are there any others?