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See also:CINDERELLA (i.e. little cinder girl) , the heroine of an almost universal See also:fairy-See also:tale. Its essential features are (I) the persecuted See also:maiden whose youth and beauty bring upon her the See also:jealousy of her step-See also:mother and sisters, (2) the intervention of a fairy or other supernatural See also:instrument on her behalf, (3) the See also:prince who falls in love with and marries her. In the See also:English version, a See also:translation of See also:Perrault's Cendrillon, the See also:glass slipper which she drops on the See also:palace stairs is due to a mistranslation of pantoufle en vair (a See also:fur slipper), mistaken for en verre. It has been suggested that the See also:story originated in a nature-myth, Cinderella being the See also:dawn, oppressed by the See also:night-clouds (cruel relatives) and finally rescued by the See also:sun (prince). See Marian Rolfe See also:Cox, Cinderella; Three See also:Hundred and See also:Forty-five Variants (1893) ; A See also:Lang, Perrault's Popular Tales (1888). End of Article: CINDERELLA (i.e. little cinder girl)Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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