Cinderella (Aschenputtel)

From Grimms' Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
The story of the abused stepdaughter who, aided by a wishing tree at her mother's grave and doves, attends the prince's ball and is identified by a lost slipper.
Cinderella

The dying mother's counsel: 'Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect thee.'

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Cinderella

The famous rhyme to the doves: 'The good into the pot, the bad into the crop.'

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Cinderella

The stepsisters mutilating their feet to fit the golden slipper — the Grimms' darker version — exposed by the doves crying 'turn and peep, turn and peep, there's blood within the shoe.'

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