For 10 name this condition that affects Piccoline, the title character of a Par Lagerkvist novel, as well as Oskar Matzerath from The Tin Drum.
In The War of the End of the World, a character with this condition makes Abbot Joao weep by telling the story of Robert the Devil and becomes the adoptive son of Jurema. One of Turgenev's Sportsmen's Sketches is titled for a peasant with this condition, who is nicknamed "the Flea" and has the power to talk to birds; that story is "Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands." A character with this attribute objects to being frequently (*) painted by Master Bernardo. Trippetta has this condition in a story about another character with it who sets eight men in orangutan costumes on fire. Edgar Allan Poe wrote about a jester with this condition in "Hop-Frog;" another character who has this attribute restarts a war by poisoning Il Toro, amongst other jobs he does for his master, an unnamed Italian Prince. For 10 name this condition that affects Piccoline, the title character of a Par Lagerkvist novel, as well as Oskar Matzerath from The Tin Drum.
In The War of the End of the World, a character with this condition makes Abbot Joao weep by telling the story of Robert the Devil and becomes the adoptive son of Jurema.
dwarfism [or being a dwarf; or other equivalents; prompt on shortness]