Reading: Europe

 Bibliography:

Europe's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten (1916)

http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/myth-folklore-unit-europas-fairy-book.html

(Image Information: The Step-Sister cuts off her toe: http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/europa-cinder-maid.html)

-The Cinder-Maid is the exact same story as the well-known children's story, Cinderella. The story is told in older text, rather than easier basic English like the Cinderella story that we have been told.

-The story takes place in an old kingdom where a Prince is having trouble looking for a new wife. The King holds a ball in the kingdom where he will invite all the families and their daughters, hoping to find his son a future Queen.

-Upon hearing the news, all the single ladies in the kingdom planned to go the dance to capture the Prince's heart. There was a maid though, a daughter of a noble who was set to do all the drudgery and the chores of the house. They called her Cinder-maid. 

-No one pitied her as she would go cry by her mother's grave all the time where she had planted a hazel tree, under which she sat at times. As she continued to cry, the forest started to listen to her, magically awakening all around her. 

-The world dressed the Cinder-maid in to the most beautiful lady and they took her to the ball as well. The prince wanted to dance with her but it had already hit midnight and she ended up having to go home. 

-The difference in this story and the Cinderella story we all know today is that in this story, the Prince is the cause of the girl's shoe falling off by ordering the soldiers to put sticky stuff on the stairs. 


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