Ashputtel characters
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Fairy Tale Fridays: Aschenputtel
Our last Fairy Tale Friday recounted Hans Christian Andersen’s "The Red Shoes" - a story about a girl whose vanity led to the loss of her feet and, ultimately, her life.
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Footwear features prominently again in today’s fairy tale. However, unlike Karen’s cursed dancing shoes, Aschenputtel (or Ashputtel) finds that her golden slippers are the vehicle of her own reward and of revenge against her cruel stepsisters.
German Popular Stories: Translated from the Kinder und Haus-Märchen collected by M.M.
Grimm. London : J. Robins : Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1834. Special Collections Children's Literature
PT 2280 .A2 M37 1834.
As presented in the 1834 edition of German Popular Stories, translated by Edgar Taylor from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Kinder und Hausmärchen, the story of Ashputtel begins with a dying mother promising her daughter, “I will look down from heaven and watch over you.” The girl’s father remarries soon after his w
