THE TRUE STORY OF CINDERELLA

Did you know that throughout the years, many writers from different countries and cultures wrote their own version of Cinderella? There was the story of Rhodopis in ancient Greece, the story of Yeh-Shen from China, and the Italian story about Zezolla. However, the grimmest of them all came from the Brothers Grimm, which includes a bloody shoe.
There was a young girl whose wicked stepmother and stepsisters treated her as a slave, forced her to sleep on the hearth among the cinders, and gave her the nickname Cinderella. Instead of having a fairy godmother, Cinderella had a tree on her mother’s grave, watered with her tears, that granted her wishes. After going to the ball, Cinderella loses her golden shoe, which was found by the prince, who then decided to test every young woman to find its owner.
When the stepsisters tried on the shoe, their feet won’t fit. So, their mother convinced both of them to cut portions of their feet in order to fit in the shoe. The prince saw the blood filling the shoe and demanded to see any other young woman in the household. When the prince finally found Cinderella, the bloody shoe was a perfect fit, and they left to be married.
On their wedding day, Cinderella’s stepsisters came in hopes of getting in the good graces of the soon-to-be princess. While at the wedding, two pigeons came and picked out the eyes of the sisters, condemning them to a life of blindness as punishment for their wickedness.