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CINDERELLA BY BROTHERS GRIMM
Cinderella’s mother dies, and her father remarries. Her stepmother, as well as her step sisters are beautiful, but have a black heart. Cinderella goes to her mother’s grave every day, prays and weeps. One day, her father asks what he should bring back from the town for the girls. The step sisters ask for dresses and pearls, while Cinderella asks for a branch from the tree that first hits him on his way home. Cinderella plants that branch and it grows into a beautiful tree, where a bird listens to her wishes and grants them. One day, the girls hear that the prince is looking for a bride and they are invited to a three day party. Cinderella (with the help of her animal friends) separates lentils from the ash several times, before find out that she may not go to the ball. She runs out, and back home. The next day, she does the same thing, although this time, the prince slicks the stairwell so when she ran away, her shoe was stuck. The next day he goes to their house, and the two evil stepsisters both try to get their foot in the shoe. The first one cuts off her big toe and rides away with the prince, but doves help him realize that her foot is bleeding and that she’s not the rightful heir to the shoe. Then the younger sister tries on the shoe, and cuts off her heal to make it fit. Same thing happens again, the prince realizes she’s not the shoes owner and returns her. He finds Cinderella at the house, and she tries the shoe on. It’s a perfect fit. They go off and get married, and the sisters (trying to get in on her new found fortune) get their eyes pecked out at the wedding.

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