Pippi Longstocking & Magic Realism

Pippi, created by the Swedish Astrid Lindgren in 1950, is a nine year old girl with gravity-defying pigtails, size-defying strength, a suitcase full of gold coins, a monkey named Mr. Nilsson & a horse. She lives alone in a house, looking after herself, living a dream life with no grown-up telling her what to do.

Like Alice in her Wonderland, Pippi also devises strange semantic usage to confound the people she comes across. But Alice is surrounded by queer people & animals, whereas Pippi lives amongst normal people. 

Like in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's quintessential Magic Realism pioneering novel "One hundred years of solitude", where among normal life, characters suddenly sprout wings & fly, Pippi also in the midst of the humdrum life of a town, suddenly disorients a visiting circus, drives away ruthless burglars, breaks social norms in coffee parties & paralyses policemen & flummoxes firemen.