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CINDERELLA (i.e. little cinder girl)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 374 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CINDERELLA (i.e. little cinder girl)  , the heroine of an almost universal
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fairy-
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tale . Its essential features are (I) the persecuted
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maiden whose youth and beauty bring upon her the
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jealousy of her step-
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mother and sisters, (2) the intervention of a fairy or other supernatural
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instrument on her behalf, (3) the
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prince who falls in love with and marries her . In the
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English version, a
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translation of
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Perrault's Cendrillon, the
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glass slipper which she drops on the
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palace stairs is due to a mistranslation of pantoufle en vair (a
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fur slipper), mistaken for en verre . It has been suggested that the
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story originated in a nature-myth,
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Cinderella being the
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dawn, oppressed by the
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night-clouds (cruel relatives) and finally rescued by the
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sun (prince) . See Marian Rolfe
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Cox, Cinderella; Three
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Hundred and
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Forty-five Variants (1893) ; A
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Lang, Perrault's Popular Tales (1888) .

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