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  • Typical Americanized Cinderella story
  • Cinderella's mother died, father remarries
  • Evil stepmother, two stepsisters
  • Forced to wear rags and do dirty work
  • Prince holds a ball for all the girls in the kingdom
  • Fairy godmother grants wish to go to ball
  • Pumpkin, rats, mice, lizards turned into stagecoach, chauffeur, horses, and footmen
  • Cinderella stays until midnight, loses glass slipper
  • Prince finds Cinderella, live happily ever after
  • Bigfoot prince only interested in ugly, odorous nature-loving girls with matted fur
  • Prince hosts a log rolling fun fest for all the Bigfeet
  • Beary godfather gives Rrrrrella bark-clogs
  • Rrrrrella defeats prince then runs back home and loses bark-clog
  • Prince finds her and they live happily ever after
  • Story based on Irish boy named Becan
  • Stepmother and stepsisters torture him because of his big feet
  • Becan escapes family farm
  • Befriends a magical bull
  • Becan finds a princess imprisoned by giant and fire-breathing dragon
  • After defeating them, he leaves
  • Princess searches for owner of enormous boot until finding Becan
  • Couple have a daughter, name her Pear Blossom and plant a pear tree to celebrate her birth
  • Mother later dies, father remarries a widow with a daughter
  • Stepmother and stepsister torture her with nearly impossible work, forcing her to stay up late every night
  • Help from magical creatures
  • All women leave for festival to meet the magistrate
  • Pear Blossom gets help to finish early and go to the festival
  • Leaves before she is spotted, loses her straw sandal
  • Magistrate follows river back, finds Pear Blossom and marries her
  • Maha's mother drowned
  • Father refuses to remarry, finally agrees to marry
  • Stepmother and stepsister become jealous
  • Maha finds magic talking fish
  • All women attend merchant's daughter's henna after wedding to find a husband
  • At midnight, Maha leaves, losing golden sandal
  • Bride's brother finds sandal in river, his mother searches for the owner
  • Stepmother hides Maha in bread oven but Maha is found
  • Stepmother tries oil to repel Tariq and fails, husband's brother wants to marry Maha's stepsister
  • Mother tries same oil on daughter to help her
  • Similar theme to Nightmare before Christmas
  • Lives in mausoleum with evil stepmother and two stepsisters
  • Chores include: hang up cobwebs, fill vases with dead flowers, litter floor with leaves, and feed bats
  • Prince holds annual Halloween Ball
  • Cinderella visits good witch who asks for jack-o'-lantern, 6 rats in a trap, two bats and a black cat which become hearse, nightmares (part horse, part dragon), chauffeur and footmen
  • Cinderella stays until sunrise, foot falls off as she runs home
  • Prince searches kingdom for owner of foot, finds Cinderella and they live happily ever after
  • Oldest known Cinderella story, dates back to 9 B.C.
  • Old man and magical fish instead of fairy godmother
  • Stepmother tricks fish, kills it and cooks it for dinner
  • Emperor in town looking for a wife, all women go to meet him
  • Old man tells Yeh-Shen fish spirit is still in her, she wishes to see him and is given a beautiful gown and golden slippers
  • Yeh-shen goes to see him, leaves before she is spotted and loses her slipper
  • Kidnapped from Greece by pirates, kept as slave in Egypt
  • Rhodopis looks different than Egyptians, Greek name for "rosy cheeks"
  • Master sees Rhodopis dancing, makes her rose-red gold slippers
  • Three evil house servants bully her, delegate all their work to her
  • Prince in another town looking for a wife
  • Falcon steals shoe
  • Prince searches for owner of shoes, finds Rhodopis and marries her
  • Setting in Martinique
  • Godmother adopts Cendrillon
  • Godmother's own mother gave her magic mahogany wand
  • Godmother uses wand to get Cendrillon to ball, chaperones her
  • Godmother pulls Cendrillon away at midnight, loses embroidered slipper
  • Based on artwork, setting appears to be in China
  • Story follows typical American/European plot
  • Only difference is a Furry Godmother
  • There are over 1,500 varieties of the Cinderella folktale!
  • What are some similarities and differences you notice in the stories?
  • Write your own Cinderella short story. How would you tell it differently?

Personal Connections

In 5th or 6th grade, I had to write my own version of Cinderella, which I called "Cinderfella"

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