GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES
CINDERELLA
Jacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm
Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) - German
philologists whose collection “Kinder- und Hausmarchen,” known
in English as “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” is a timeless literary
masterpiece. The brothers transcribed these tales directly from folk
and fairy stories told to them by common villagers. Cinderella
(1812) - The famous tale of a girl who is mistreated by her evil step-
mother and step-sisters but goes on to marry the prince. This, the
original “Cindrella,” differs greatly from many of its modern
variations.
CINDERELLA
THERE WAS once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she
felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come
near her bed, and said, “Dear child, be good and pious, and God
will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from
heaven, and will be with you.” And then she closed her eyes and
died. The maiden went every day to her mother’s grave and wept,
and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow
covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came
in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself
another wife.
The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they
were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were black and
ugly. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter.
“Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?” said they;
“those who eat food must earn it. She is nothing but a kitchen-
maid!” They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old
gray kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear.
“Just look now at the proud princess, how she is decked out!” cried
they laughing, and then they sent her into the kitchen. There she
was obliged to do heavy work from morning to night, get up early
in the morning, draw water, make the fires, cook, and wash.
Besides that, the sisters did their utmost to torment her- mocking
GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES
CINDERELLA
Jacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm
Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) - German
philologists whose collection “Kinder- und Hausmarchen,” known
in English as “Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” is a timeless literary
masterpiece. The brothers transcribed these tales directly from folk
and fairy stories told to them by common villagers. Cinderella
(1812) - The famous tale of a girl who is mistreated by her evil step-
mother and step-sisters but goes on to marry the prince. This, the
original “Cindrella,” differs greatly from many of its modern
variations.
CINDERELLA
THERE WAS once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she
felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come
near her bed, and said, “Dear child, be good and pious, and God
will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from
heaven, and will be with you.” And then she closed her eyes and
died. The maiden went every day to her mother’s grave and wept,
and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow
covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came
in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself
another wife.
The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they
were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were black and
ugly. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter.
“Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?” said they;
“those who eat food must earn it. She is nothing but a kitchen-
maid!” They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old
gray kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear.
“Just look now at the proud princess, how she is decked out!” cried
they laughing, and then they sent her into the kitchen. There she
was obliged to do heavy work from morning to night, get up early
in the morning, draw water, make the fires, cook, and wash.
Besides that, the sisters did their utmost to torment her- mocking
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