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Cinderella

Gustave Doré's illustration for Cendrillon

Folk tale

Name: Cinderella
AKA: Cendrillon (France),
Cenicienta (Spain and Latin America),
Cenerentola (Italy),
Cenușăreasa (Romania),
Aschenputtel (Germany),
Assepoester (Netherlands),
Askungen (Sweden),
Askepot (Denmark),
Askepott (Norway),
Золушка Zolushka (Russia),
Пепеляшка Pepelyashka (Bulgaria),
Pepeljuga (Serbia and Croatia)
Data
Aarne-Thompson 510a
Grouping:
Country: Worldwide
Published in: The Pentamerone (1634)
Mother Goose Tales (1697)
Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812)

"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" (French: Cendrillon ou

La petite Pantoufle de Verre) is a folk tale embodying a myth-
element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of
variants are known throughout the world.[1] The title character[2] is a
young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly
changed to remarkable fortune. The word "cinderella" has, by
analogy, come to mean one whose attributes are unrecognised, or
one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a
period of obscurity and neglect. The still-popular story of
"Cinderella" continues to influence popular culture internationally,
lending plot elements, allusions, and tropes to a wide variety of
media.

Contents
[hide]

• 1 Early versions
• 2 Cenerentola, Cinderella and
Aschenputtel
• 3 Plot (taken from Perrault)
• 4 Types
• 5 Adaptations
o 5.1 Opera
o 5.2 Ballet
o 5.3 Ice Show
o 5.4 Verse
o 5.5 Theater
 5.5.1 Pantomime
 5.5.2 Musical theatre
o 5.6 Films
o 5.7 Books
 5.7.1 Novels
 5.7.2 Short stories
 5.7.3 Comic books
o 5.8 Songs
 5.8.1 Cinderella jumprope
song
o 5.9 Video games
o 5.10 In other languages
• 6 See also
• 7 Footnotes

• 8 External links

[edit] Early versions

The Cinderella theme may well have originated in classical antiquity.
The Ancient Greek historian Strabo (Geographica Book 17, 1.33)
recorded in the 1st century BC the tale of the Greco-Egyptian girl
Rhodopis, "rosy-cheeked", who lived in the Greek colony of
Naucratis in Ancient Egypt. It is often considered the oldest known
version of the story:

They tell the fabulous story that, when she was bathing, an eagle
snatched one of her sandals from her maid and carried it to
Memphis. While the king was administering justice in the open air,
the eagle, when it arrived above his head, flung the sandal into his
lap. The king, having been stirred both by the beautiful shape of the
sandal and by the strangeness of the occurrence, sent men in all
directions into the country in quest of the woman who wore the
sandal. When she was found in the city of Naucratis, she was
brought up to Memphis and became the wife of the king...[3][4]

Herodotus, some five centuries before Strabo, supplied further

information about Rhodopis in his Histories, writing that Rhodopis
came from Thrace, and was the slave of Iadmon of Samos, and a
fellow-slave of Aesop. She was taken to Egypt in the time of Pharaoh
Amasis, and freed there for a large sum by Charaxus of Mytilene,
brother of Sappho, the lyric poet.[5][6]

The story later reappears with Aelian (ca. 175–ca. 235),[7] showing
that the Cinderella theme remained popular throughout antiquity.

The magical significance of the pumpkin in the Cinderella story

(which has led to a modern expression for a person who desires an
early bedtime, 'after midnight, I turn into a pumpkin') might derive
from the 1st century comic work of Seneca 'On the Pumpkinification
of Claudius', playing on a pun for the word for deification and the
word for pumpkin.[8]

Another version of the story, Ye Xian, appeared in Miscellaneous

Morsels from Youyang by Tuan Ch'eng-Shih around 860. Here, the
hardworking and lovely girl befriends a fish, the reincarnation of her
mother, who was killed by her stepmother. Ye Xian saves the bones,
which are magic, and they help her dress appropriately for a
festival. When she loses her slipper after a fast exit, the king finds
her slipper and falls in love with her (eventually rescuing her from
her cruel stepmother). Another version of the story, which is similar
to the Chinese version, exists in the Philippines. The story is known
as "Mariang Alimango" (Mary the Crab). In this version, the spirit of
her dead mother reincarnates as a crab, hence the title, and serves
as her "fairy godmother".
Several different variants of the story appear in the medieval One
Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights,
including "The Second Shaykh's Story", "The Eldest Lady's Tale" and
"Abdallah ibn Fadil and His Brothers", all dealing with the theme of a
younger sibling harassed by two jealous elders. In some of these,
the siblings are female, while in others, they are male. One of the
tales, "Judar and His Brethren", departs from the happy endings of
previous variants and reworks the plot to give it a tragic ending
instead, with the younger brother being poisoned by his elder
brothers.[9]

Aspects of Cinderella may be derived from the story of Cordelia in

Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain. Cordelia
is the youngest and most virtuous of King Leir of Briton's three
daughters, however her virtue is such that it will not allow her to lie
in flattering her father when he asks, so that he divides up the
kingdom between the elder daughters and leaves Cordelia with
nothing. Cordelia marries her love, Aginippus, King of the Franks,
and flees to Gaul where she and her husband raise an army and
depose her wicked sisters who have been misusing their father.
Cordelia is finally crowned Queen of the Britons. However her reign
only lasts five years. The story is famously retold by Shakespeare,
but given a tragic ending.

[edit] Cenerentola, Cinderella and

Aschenputtel

Aschenputtel at her mother's grave, with birds

In 1634, Giambattista Basile, a Neapolitan soldier and government

official, wrote Lo cunto de li cunti (The Story of Stories), or
Pentamerone. It featured the tale of Cenerentola, which features a
wicked step mother and step sisters, magical transformations, a
missing slipper, and a hunt by a king for the owner of the slipper.[10]

One of the most popular versions of Cinderella was written by

Charles Perrault in 1697. The popularity of his tale was due to his
additions to the story, including the pumpkin, the fairy-godmother
and the introduction of glass slippers.[11]

Another well-known version was recorded by the German brothers

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 19th century. The tale is called
"Aschenputtel" ("Cinderella" in English translations) and the help
comes not from a fairy-godmother but the wishing tree that grows
on her mother's grave. In this version, the stepsisters try to trick the
prince by cutting off parts of their feet in order to get the slipper to
fit. The prince is alerted by two pigeons who peck out the
stepsisters' eyes, thus sealing their fate as blind beggars for the rest
of their lives. In this story, the prince is tricked twice but is spared
by the birds. This lowers the Prince's status and he seems less
heroic, raising Cinderella's status as a strong-willed individual.[12]

In Irish Gaelic myth/lore, there is a story of Geal, Donn, and

Critheanach, or Fair, Brown and Trembling. The Stepsisters' Celtic
equivalents are Geal and Donn, and Cinderella is Critheanach.

[edit] Plot (taken from Perrault)

Oliver Herford illustrated the fairy godmother inspired from the
Perrault version

(See above for many variations)

Once upon a time, there was a widower who married a proud and
haughty woman as his second wife. She had two daughters, who
were equally vain. By his first wife, he'd had a beautiful, young
daughter, who was a girl of unparalleled goodness and sweet
temper. The Stepmother and her daughters forced the first daughter
to complete all the housework. When the girl had done her work,
she sat in the cinders, which caused her to be called "Cinderella".
The poor girl bore it patiently, but she dared not tell her father, who
would have scolded her, since his wife controlled him entirely.

One day, the Prince invited all the young ladies in the land to a ball
so he could choose a lovely wife. As the two Stepsisters were
invited, they gleefully planned their wardrobes. Although Cinderella
assisted them and dreamed of going to the dance, they taunted her
by saying a maid could never attend a ball.

As the sisters swept away to the ball, Cinderella cried in despair. Her
Fairy Godmother magically appeared and vowed to assist Cinderella
in attending the ball. She turned a pumpkin into a coach, mice into
horses, a rat into a coachman, and lizards into footmen. She then
turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful gown, complete with a
delicate pair of glass slippers. The Godmother told her to enjoy the
ball, but warned that she had to return before midnight; otherwise,
the spells would be broken.

At the ball, the entire court was entranced by Cinderella, especially

the Prince, who never left her side. Unrecognized by her sisters,
Cinderella remembered to leave before midnight. Back home,
Cinderella graciously thanked her Godmother. She then greeted the
Stepsisters, who enthusiastically talked of nothing but the beautiful
girl at the ball.

When another ball was held the next evening, Cinderella again
attended with her Godmother's help. The Prince became even more
entranced. However, this evening she lost track of time and left only
at the final stroke of midnight, losing one of her glass slippers on the
steps of the palace in her haste. The Prince chased her, but outside
the palace, the guards had seen only a simple country wench leave.
The Prince pocketed the slipper and vowed to find and marry the girl
to whom it belonged. Meanwhile, Cinderella kept the other slipper,
which had not disappeared when the spell had broken.

The Prince tried the slipper on all the women in the kingdom. When
the Prince arrived at Cinderella's villa, the Stepsisters tried in vain to
win over the prince. When Cinderella asked if she might try, the
Stepsisters taunted her. Naturally, the slipper fitted perfectly, and
Cinderella produced the other slipper for good measure. The
Stepsisters begged for forgiveness, and Cinderella forgave them for
their cruelties.

Cinderella returned to the palace, where she married the Prince, and
the Stepsisters also married two lords.

The moral of the story is that beauty is a treasure, but graciousness

is priceless. Without it, nothing is possible; with it, one can do
anything.[13]

[edit] Types
Folklorists have long studied variants on this tale across cultures.[14]
In 1893, Marian Roalfe Cox, commissioned by the Folklore Society of
Britain, produced Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-Five Variants
of Cinderella, Catskin and, Cap o'Rushes, Abstracted and Tabulated
with a Discussion of Medieval Analogues and Notes.[14]

Further morphology studies have continued on this seminal work.[14]

Cinderella is classified as Aarne-Thompson type 510A, the

persecuted heroine. Others of this type include The Sharp Grey
Sheep, The Golden Slipper, The Story of Tam and Cam, Rushen
Coatie, Fair, Brown and Trembling and Katie Woodencloak.[15]

[edit] Adaptations
Massenet's opera Cendrillon

Pantomime at the Adelphi

Cinderella Christmas exhibit in Minden, Louisiana

The story of "Cinderella" has formed the basis of many notable

works:

[edit] Opera

• Cendrillon (1749) by Jean-Louis Laruette

• Cendrillon (1810) by Nicolas Isouard, libretto by Charles-
Guillaume Étienne
• La Cenerentola (1817) by Gioachino Rossini
• Aschenbrödel (1878) by Ferdinand Langer
• Cendrillon (1894-5) by Jules Massenet, libretto by Henri Caïn
• Cinderella (1901-2) by Gustav Holst
• La Cenerentola (1902) by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
• Cendrillon (1904) by Pauline García-Viardot
• Aschenbrödel (1905) by Leo Blech, libretto by Richard Batka
• La Cenicienta (1966) by Jorge Peña Hen
• Cinderella, a "pantomime opera" (1979) by Peter Maxwell
Davies
• Cendrillon, children's opera (1994) by Vladimir Kojoukharov

[edit] Ballet

• Cinderella (1893) by Baron Boris Vietinghoff-Scheel

• Aschenbrödel (1901) by Johann Strauss II, adapted and
completed by Josef Bayer
• Das Märchen vom Aschenbrödel (1941) by Frank Martin
• Soluschka or Cinderella (1945) by Sergei Prokofiev
• Cinderella (1980) by Paul Reade

[edit] Ice Show

• Cinderella (2008) by Tim A. Duncan and Edward Barnwell

[edit] Verse

• Assepoester (1981) by Jan Kal

[edit] Theater
[edit] Pantomime

Cinderella debuted as a pantomime on stage at the Drury Lane

Theatre, London in 1904 and at the Adelphi Theatre in London in
1905. Phyllis Dare, aged 14 or 15, starred in the latter. In 1926,
Cinderella was caught on film in the London Palladium, starring
Lennie Dean in the lead role.

In the traditional pantomime version the opening scene is set in a

forest with a hunt in sway and it is here that Cinderella first meets
Prince Charming and his "right-hand man" Dandini, whose name and
character come from Gioachino Rossini opera (La Cenerentola).
Cinderella mistakes Dandini for the Prince and the Prince for
Dandini.

Her father, Baron Hardup, is under the thumb of his two

stepdaughters, the Ugly sisters, and has a servant named Buttons,
who is Cinderella's friend. Throughout the pantomime, the Baron is
continually harassed by the Broker's Men (often named after current
politicians) for outstanding rent. The Fairy Godmother must
magically create a coach (from a pumpkin), footmen (from mice), a
coach driver (from a frog), and a beautiful dress (from rags) for
Cinderella to go to the ball. However, she must return by midnight,
as it is then that the spell ceases.

[edit] Musical theatre

• Cinderella: The Musical by Landon Parks (book & lyrics) and

Ioannis Kourtis (music) is an English language musical stage
show written in 2009, and based on the opera Cendrillon by
Jules Massenett.
• Cinderella by Rodgers and Hammerstein was produced for
television three times:
o Cinderella (1957) features Julie Andrews as Cinderella,
Jon Cypher, Kaye Ballard, Alice Ghostley and Edie Adams
(broadcast in color, but only black-and-white kinescopes
exist today).
o Cinderella (1965) features Lesley Ann Warren as
Cinderella, Stuart Damon as the Prince, Ginger Rogers
as the Queen, Walter Pidgeon as the King, Celeste Holm
as the Fairy Godmother and Jo Van Fleet as the
Stepmother.
 o Cinderella (1997) features Brandy as Cinderella, Paolo
Montalbán, Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg, Victor
Garber, Bernadette Peters, and Jason Alexander.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein version has also been staged

live at times. A successful version ran in 1958 at the London
Coliseum with a cast including Tommy Steele, Yana, Jimmy
Edwards, Kenneth Williams and Betty Marsden. This version
was augmented with several other Rodgers and
Hammerstein's songs plus a song written by Tommy Steele,
"You and Me" which he sang with Jimmy Edwards. Bobby
Howell was the musical director. A 2005 version featured Paolo
Montalbán and an ethnically diverse cast, like the 1997 TV
version. Broadway Asia Entertainment produced a staged
International Tour starring Lea Salonga and Australian actor
Peter Saide in 2008.

• Mr. Cinders, a musical which opened at the Adelphi Theatre,

London in 1929. Filmed in 1934
• Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim (1988), in which
Cinderella is one of many fairy tale characters who take part
in the plot. This is partly based on the Grimm Brothers version
of "Cinderella," including the enchanted birds, mother's grave,
three balls, and mutilation and blinding of the stepsisters.
• The Return of The Glass Slipper by Mary Donelly
• Cinderella by Kate Hawley is written in the style of British
pantos.
• Cindy, a 1964 Off-Broadway musical composed by Johnny
Brandon
• Золушka (or Zolushka), a 2002 made-for-TV Russian pop
musical
• Cinderella (2007), a pantomime written by Stephen Fry for the
Old Vic Theatre
• Cinderella the Musical (2008), features J-Pop group Morning
Musume and the Takarazuka Revue
• Cinderella Sillyious Musical (2008/09), a musical comedy
produced by Ross Petty for the Elgin Theatre Toronto
• If the shoe fits (2011) Riverside Theater Guild

[edit] Films

Over the decades, hundreds of films have been made that are either
direct adaptations from Cinderella or have plots loosely based on
the story. Almost every year at least one, but often several such
films are produced and released, resulting in Cinderella becoming a
work of literature with one of the largest numbers of film
adaptations ascribed to it.

• Cinderella (1899), the first ever film version, produced in

France by Georges Méliès.
• Cinderella (1911), a silent film starring Florence La Badie
• Cinderella (1914), a silent film starring Mary Pickford
• Aschenputtel (1922) silhouette shadow play short by Lotte
Reiniger.
• Cinderella, an animated Laugh-O-Gram produced by Walt
Disney, first released on December 6, 1922. This film was
about 7.5 minutes long.
• Poor Cinderella (1934), a Fleischer Studios animated short film
starring Betty Boop
• Cinderella Meets Fella, (1938), a Merrie Melodies animated
short film
• First Love, (1939), musical modernization with Deanna Durbin
and Robert Stack
• Cinderella (Зо́лушка) (1947), a Soviet musical film by Lenfilm
studios, starring Erast Garin and Faina Ranevskaya
• Cinderella, an animated feature released on February 15,
1950, now considered one of Disney's classics. A direct-to-
video sequel, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, was released
in 2002. A second direct-to-video sequel Cinderella III: A Twist
in Time was released in 2007.
• Aschenputtel (1955), West German film, dubbed into English
and released in the USA in 1966 as Cinderella.
• The Glass Slipper (1955), feature film with Leslie Caron and
Michael Wilding
• Cinderfella (1960), notable in that the main character is a
man, played by Jerry Lewis
• The story also inspired an episode of The Flintstones entitled,
Cinderellastone, which originally aired on October 22, 1964. In
it, Fred, mad because he was not invited to Mr. Slate's party,
dreams he is Cinderella (complete with a Fairy Godmother
voiced by June Foray) and goes to the party. The next day, he
gets a big promotion and finds that he wasn't invited due to a
clerical oversight.
• Popelka (Cinderella, 1969), a Czech musical film
• Hey, Cinderella! (1970), a 60-minute film produced by the Jim
Henson Company. This comedy version features Jim Henson's
trademark Muppets (including a small role by Kermit the Frog).
• Sinderella Kül Kedisi (1971) Turkish film with Zeynep
Değirmencioğlu
• Tři oříšky pro Popelku / Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel
(Three Nuts for Cinderella; known in the UK as Three Gifts for
Cinderella), a Czech-German movie released in 1973
• The Slipper and the Rose, a 1976 British musical film starring
Gemma Craven and Richard Chamberlain.
• Cinderella, a 1977 American erotic musical comedy starring
Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith, Brett Smiley and Sy Richardson,
directed by Michael Pataki
• Cindy (1978), made for television
• Zolushka, a 1979 musical Soviet animated film.
• The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin (1981), an Oscar-
nominated animated short from the National Film Board of
Canada[16]
• Fresh (1985), a music video for the song by Kool & the Gang
features a Cinderella theme.
• Hello Kitty's Cinderella (1989), an anime short film starring
Hello Kitty, was released in Japan.
• Hello Kitty - Cinderella was released in the U.S. as part of the
Hello Kitty and Friends anime series.
• Ashpet: An American Cinderella, a 1990 Southern
"Appalachia" version of the story, adapted from the Brothers
Grimm, starring Louise Anderson and directed by Tom
Davenport.
• If the Shoe Fits (1990), modern take on the Cinderella story
set in France starring Rob Lowe and Jennifer Grey
• Cinderella (1994), produced by Jetlag Productions and
distributed by GoodTimes Entertainment, premiered on video.
• Cinderella Monogatari (1996) Japanese Anime version of
Cinderella. Consisted of 26 episodes.
• Ever After (1998), starring Drew Barrymore, a post-feminist
take on the Cinderella myth.
• Cinderella (2000), a British production set in mid-20th century
and starring Kathleen Turner
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002), A look at the classic
"Cinderella" story from the perspective of one of her 'ugly'
stepsister adapted from Gregory Maguire's book of the same
name[17]
• A Cinderella Story (2004), a modernization featuring Hilary
Duff and Chad Michael Murray
• A segment of the 2005 Turkish anthology film Istanbul Tales
made up of five stories based on popular fairy tales is based
on this tale in which Cinderella is a prostitute
 • Cinderelmo, a Cinderella story featuring Sesame Street's Elmo
and Keri Russell
• Happily N'Ever After (2007)
• Year of the Fish (2008)
• Another Cinderella Story (2008) starring Selena Gomez and
Drew Seeley
• Heart Day, (2009), a Prince rescues a version of Cinderella
named Princess Roola
• Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010) starring Sterling Knight
and Ashlee Hewitt
• Grazilda (2010), a Philippine TV series. It tells the story of
Cinderella but its focused on what happened after happily
ever after.
• Cinderella (2013) starring Amanda Seyfried[18]

[edit] Books

• Cox M.-R. Cinderella. Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of

Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap 0’ Rushes, abstracted and
tabulated, with a discussion of mediaeval analogues, and
notes, by Marian Roalfe Cox. L., 1893.
• Rooth A.B. The Cinderella cycle. Lund: Gleerup, 1951.
• 50 Ways To Retell A Story: Cinderella by Alan Peat, Julie Peat
and Christopher Storey: Published by Creative Educational
Press Ltd 2010. ISBN 978-0-9544755-5-0.

[edit] Novels

• Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah

• Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Garner. In this
version, Cinderella is dressed in a gown "woven of silk which
was stolen from unsuspecting silkworms" and has all the men
fighting to death over her. This enables the women to take
over the government and pass the law that women should
only wear comfortable clothes.
• Bound by Donna Jo Napoli
• Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire.
Maguire's style of writing is to twist fairy tales. In his novel,
Cinderella is the spoiled child.
• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Ella was put under a
spell at birth that forces her to obey any order given to her. An
unusual twist as it features the ball only in the last few
chapters, dealing more with Ella's struggle against the curse
 and because the prince (Charmont) knows Ella before the ball
but does not recognize her as she is in disguise.
• Cinderellis and the Glass Hill by Gail Carson Levine
• I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers by Philip Pullman
• Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley
• Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
• The Glass Slipper by Eleanor Farjeon
• Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey
• When Cinderella Falls Down Dead by Joshua Gabe and Grayian
Phoenix. In this version, Cinderella is reembodied into the 21st
Century in the body of a young girl.
• Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
• The Midnight Dancers by Regina Doman makes references to
the fairy tale. The heroine Rachel is exploited by her
stepmother and stepsisters, and routinely sneaks out to
dance.
• Godmother, The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon.
Lil is the fairy that was given the task of helping Cinderella get
to the ball and the prince, but she is trapped in the body of an
aging elderly woman for the huge mistake she made. To
redeem her mistake, she tries to get two single New Yorkers
together to a ball.
• Her Feet Chime by Rumki Chowdhury. In this Bangladeshi
version, Asha's evil aunt and cousin turn her into a servant,
renaming her Thamsha, and breaking all family relations with
her. Asha's servant friends help her wear a ginger garment
and meet her Nawabzada, Bengali Prince, at a palace
gathering.
• Mrs. Beast by Pamela Ditchoff
• Cindy Ella by Robin Palmer
• The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey
• Jim C. Hines Princess series of book include Danielle
Whiteshore (Cinderella) after her marriage to the prince.

[edit] Short stories

• Catch the Moon by Judith Ortiz Cofer

• Rosie's Dance by Emma Hardesty

[edit] Comic books

• Cinderella appears as a character in Bill Willingham's Vertigo

series, Fables. Cinderella (or "Cindy," as her fellow Fables call
 her) is the third and final of Prince Charming's ex-wives and is
Fabletown's resident super spy. Her cover is the ownership of
her own shoe store, the Glass Slipper, and she maintains a
bitter persona in order to throw off the suspicions of the rest
of her community. She also appeared in her own spin-off
comic, Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love.
• Cinderalla by Junko Mizuno
• Ludwig Revolution by Kaori Yuki. In this version, Cinderella's
feet are too large and the series' protagonist lends her his
shoe for the evening, acting as her Fairy Godmother. Also, the
Prince doesn't hold the ball to find his wife, but to find the
woman with large feet who killed his pet lizard, Isolde.

[edit] Songs

Some popular songs that make reference to the story of Cinderella

include:

• Cinderella Stay Awhile a song by Michael Jackson from his

1975 album Forever, Michael.
• Cinderella by Vince Gill, released 1987.
• Cinderella a song by Britney Spears from her 2001 album
Britney.
• Cinderella, a 2001 single by Sweetbox.
• Cinderella by Shakaya, released 2002.
• Cinderella a 2003 single by The Cheetah Girls.
• Cinderella by Tata Young from her 2004 album I Believe.
• Cinderella song by Steven Curtis Chapman from This Moment
(2007).
• A Cinderella Story by Mudvayne's fourth album The New
Game (2008).
• Cinderella Man by Eminem from his album Recovery (2010).
• Romeo and Cinderella from Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA,
released in 2010.
• Cinderella Undercover by Oingo Boingo
• Cinderella Blue by Robert Lucas
• Cinderella's Curls by Waxing Gibbous
• Cinderfella by Snoop Dogg
• A Dustland Fairytale by The Killers in Day & Age
• Fairytale by Sara Bareilles
• Half Past Midnight by 1960's Canadian vocal group The
Staccatos
• Hey Cinderella by Suzy Bogguss
 • The Glass Slipper by The Dresden Dolls
• Mayonaka no Door, by Liu Yifei (first ending of Demashita!
Powerpuff Girls Z)
• Not Your Cinderella by Catherine Britt
• One Headlight by The Wallflowers
• Stealing Cinderella by Chuck Wicks
• There is Music in You by Rodgers & Hammerstein
• Umbrella (Remix), originally by Rihanna & Jay-Z but remixed
by Chris Brown and retitled "Cinderella"
• C\C (Cinderella\Complex) by High-King
• Cinderella 신데렐라 by Korean pop singer Seo In-Young
• Cendrillon (The French name for Cinderella) by French rock
group Téléphone
• Rindercella by Archie Campbell
• Cinderella by Sajjad Ali
• 21Ji Made no Cinderella by Berryz Koubou
• Hadashi no Cinderella Boy by NEWS
• Shi no Butou~Romance of the Cendrillon by Malice Mizer
• Cinderfella Dana Dane by Dana Dane
• Cinderela by the late Portuguese singer Carlos Paião
• Barefoot Cinderella by Hannah Montana
• Cinderella by Damien Burner Blazé Jackson

[edit] Cinderella jumprope song

There is a jumprope song for children that involves Cinderella:

Cinderella dressed in yellow, went upstairs to kiss her fellow, by

mistake she kissed a snake, how many doctors will it take? 1, 2, 3,
etc.
Cinderella dressed in blue, went upstairs to tie her shoe, made a
mistake and tied a knot, how many knots will she make? 1, 2, 3, etc.
Cinderella dressed in green, went downtown to buy a ring, made a
mistake and bought a fake, how many days before it breaks? 1, 2, 3,
etc.
Cinderella dressed in lace, went upstairs to fix her face, oh no oh no,
she found a blemish, how many powder puffs till she's finished? 1, 2,
3, etc.
Cinderella dressed in silk, went outside to get some milk, made a
mistake and fell in the lake, how many more till she gets a break? 1,
2, 3, etc.

The counting continues as long as the jumper avoids missing a

jump. If they do then the counting starts again.
Variations:

Cinderella dressed in yellow, went downtown to meet her fellow (or

"to buy some mustard"). On the way, her girdle busted. All the
people were disgusted.
(Heard in Jackson Heights, Queens, late 1950s)

Cinderella dressed in yellow, went upstairs to kiss her fellow. how

many kisses did she give him?
(Heard in Northern Ireland)

Cinderella dressed in yell'a, went downstairs to kiss a fell'a. Made a

mistake and kissed a snake, how many stitches (or "doctors") did it
take?"

Cinderella dressed in yell'a, went downtown to kiss her fell'a. How

many kisses did he get? 1,2,3 etc. (Heard in Leesburg, Florida, Early
2009)

[edit] Video games

In 2005, Disney released Disney's Cinderella: Magical Dreams for

the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. Cinderella was also featured in
Disney's / Squaresoft's video game Kingdom Hearts[19] where she is
one of the seven princesses of heart which are needed to open the
door to darkness. She, along with her entire world, will also be in
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

[edit] In other languages

• Arabic - ‫ سندريل‬- (Sndrylā)

• Bulgarian - Пепеляшка - (Pepelyashka)
• Catalan - Ventafocs
• Chinese - 灰姑娘 - (Huīgūniang)
• Croatian - Pepeljuga
• Czech - Popelka
• Danish - Askepot
• Dutch - Assepoester
• English - Cinderella
• Estonian - Tuhkatriinu
• European Portuguese - Cinderela
• Filipino - Sinderela
 • Finnish - Tuhkimo
• French - Cendrillon
• German - Aschenputtel
• Greek - Σταχτοπούτα - (Stachtopoúta)
• Hebrew - ‫"לכלוכית\ "סינדרלה‬
• Hindi - ििििििििििि - (Sindirēllā)
• Hungarian - Hamupipőke
• Indonesian - Cinderella
• Irish - Cinderella
• Icelandic - Öskubuska
• Italian - Cenerentola
• Japanese - シンデレラ - (Shinderera)
• Korean - 신데렐라 - (Sindelella)
• Latvian - Pelnrušķīte
• Macedonian - Пепелашка - (Pepelashka)
• Norwegian - Askepott
• Persian - ‫ سیندرل‬- (Sinderela)
• Polish - Kopciuszek
• Portuguese - Cinderela
• Romanian - Cenuşăreasă
• Russian - Золушка - (Zolushka)
• Serbian - Пепљуга - (Pepljuga)
• Slovak - Popoluška
• Slovenian - Pepelka
• Swedish - Askungen
• Spanish - Cenicienta
• Thai - ซินเดอเรลล่า - (Cinderella)
• Turkish - Külkedisi
• Vietnamese - Công Chúa Lọ Lem
• Ukrainian - Попелюшка - (Popelushka)

[edit] See also

Folklore
portal

• Cinderella effect
• Cinderella complex

[edit] Footnotes
1. ^ Zipes, Jack (2001). The Great Fairy Tale Tradition:
From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. W. W.
Norton & Co. p. 444. ISBN 978-0393976366.
2. ^ Although both the story's title and the character's
name change in different languages, in English-language
folklore "Cinderella" is the archetypal name.
3. ^ Strabo (23). "Strabo's account of Rhodopis". The
Geography.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/17
A3*.html#ref178. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
4. ^ "The Egyptian Cinderella", an embellished retelling.
5. ^ Anderson, Graham (2000). Fairytale in the ancient
world. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 978-0415237024.
http://books.google.com/id=B2DAAlUrbBIC&pg=PA27&dq=Fair
ytale+in+the+ancient+world+rhodopis&cd=1#v=onepage&q
=Fairytale%20in%20the%20ancient%20world%20rhodopis.
Retrieved 25 March 2010.
6. ^ Herodotus. The Histories.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?
target=en&inContent=true&q=Rhodopis&doc=Perseus
%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126. Retrieved 25 March 2010., book 2,
chapters 134 and 135.
7. ^ Aelian, "Various History", 13.33
8. ^ Seneca, Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii
9. ^ Ulrich Marzolph, Richard van Leeuwen, Hassan
Wassouf (2004). The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO.
p. 4. ISBN 1576072045.
10. ^ Linda Hagge, Iowa State, English Department
instructor course website, Pentamerone
11. ^ An modern edition of the original French text by
Perrault is found in Charles Perrault, Contes, ed. Marc Soriano
(Paris: Flammarion, 1989), pp. 274-79.
12. ^ Karasek, Barbara and Hallett, Martin, Folk & Fairy
Tales. Ormskirk, Lancashire: Broad View Press, 2002.
13. ^ Perrault: Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper
14. ^ a b c "If The Shoe Fits: Folklorists' criteria for #510"
15. ^ Heidi Anne Heiner, "Tales Similar to Cinderella"
16. ^ Perlman, Janet (1981). "The Tender Tale of Cinderella
Penguin". NFB.ca. National Film Board of Canada.
http://www.nfb.ca/film/the_tender_tale_of_cinderella_penguin.
Retrieved 2009-03-12.
17. ^ Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002)
18. ^ Amanda Seyfried Rumored for Live-Action
CINDERELLA
 19. ^ Anise Hollingshead, "Review of Disney's Cinderella:
Magical Dreams," GameZone (10/03/2005).

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