Cinderella doesn't even have it's name from the German versions, that'd be Aschenputtel or Aschenbrödel, but from the French variant which was already 1700 year

Cinderella doesn't even have it's name from the German versions, that'd be Aschenputtel or Aschenbrödel, but from the French variant which was already 1700 years old when you take the story of Rhodopis from ancient greek as its origin (as far as we know now). The greek geographer recorded: "They [the Egyptians] tell the fabulous story that, when she was bathing, an eagle snatched one of her sandals from her maid and carried it to Memphis; and while the king was administering justice in the open air, the eagle, when it arrived above his head, flung the sandal into his lap; and the king, 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; and when she was found in the city of Naucratis, she was brought up to Memphis, and became the wife of the king." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella Two years ago I saw an excellent performance of Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Volksoper in Vienna, they put the choir into a 24-legged horse costume to pull the prince's carriage. https://www.volksoper.at/produktion/la-cenerentola-aschenbrodel-1999.de.html https://www.volksoper.at/produktion/la-cenerentola-aschenbro...