See also:

• CINDERELLA (i.e. little cinder girl)

CINDERELLA (i.e. little cinder girl)  , the heroine of an almost universal See also:

• FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

fairy-See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale . Its essential features are (I) the persecuted See also:

• MAIDEN, or MAID

maiden whose youth and beauty bring upon her the See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy of her step-See also:

• MOTHER

mother and sisters, (2) the intervention of a fairy or other supernatural See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument on her behalf, (3) the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince who falls in love with and marries her . In the See also:

• ENGLISH

English version, a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of See also:

• PERRAULT, CHARLES (1628-1703)

Perrault's Cendrillon, the See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass slipper which she drops on the See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace stairs is due to a mistranslation of pantoufle en vair (a See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur slipper), mistaken for en verre . It has been suggested that the See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story originated in a nature-myth, See also:

• CINDERELLA (i.e. little cinder girl)

Cinderella being the See also:

• DAWN (the 16th-century form of the earlier " Jawing " or " dawning," from an old verb " daw," O. Eng. dagian, to become day; cf. Dutch dagen, and Ger. tagen)

dawn, oppressed by the See also:

• NIGHT

night-clouds (cruel relatives) and finally rescued by the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun (prince) . See Marian Rolfe See also:

• COX, DAVID (1783-1859)
• COX, JACOB DOLSON (1828-1900)
• COX, KENYON (1856– )
• COX, RICHARD (I3oo ?–1581)
• COX, SAMUEL (1826–1893)
• COX, SAMUEL HANSON (1793-1880)
• COX, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (1827-1902)

Cox, Cinderella; Three See also:

• HUNDRED

Hundred and See also:

• FORTY

Forty-five Variants (1893) ; A See also:

• LANG, ANDREW (1844— )
• LANG, KARL HEINRICH, RITTER VON (1764-1835)

Lang, Perrault's Popular Tales (1888) .