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Cinderella: The Complete Story and Its Many Versions Around the World | Folklore for Sleep
Cinderella: The Complete Story and Its Many Versions Around the World | Folklore for Sleep
A slow, quiet journey through the many versions of Cinderella, made for falling asleep to.
There are somewhere between three hundred and a thousand of them, depending on who's counting, and the oldest written one is from ninth-century China. Which means the version most people carry around — the pumpkin, the mice, the glass — is about three hundred years old and roughly the fiftieth thing that happened to this story.
What follows is the whole spread of it. A girl in Tang dynasty China with a fish that…
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