The following tales are
similar to the Cinderella fairy tale, ATU 510A. I have included the English
language tales of this type here. Sometimes
I include tales of other classifications when I deem them relevant to
the theme. The tales come from many cultures and are similar to the Cinderella
story in various ways. I have placed the tales in alphabetical order with
bibliographic information and links to texts of the stories if a text
is available on the internet.
A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
This tale is ATU 510A.
An English language version is available in:
Chase, Richard, ed. Grandfather Tales: American-English
Folk Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1948.
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ATU 510A; from Scotland. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British
Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1970, 1971.
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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Afanasyev, Aleksandr. Russian Fairy
Tales. Norbert Guterman, translator. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
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Ralston, W. R. S. Russian Folk-Tales. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1873.
ATU 510A; from Japan. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Seki, Keigo. Folktales of Japan. Robert J. Adams,
translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1963.
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ATU 510A; from
France. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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ATU 510A; from
France. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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ATU 510A; from Vietnam. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Vuong, Lynnette Dyer. The Brocaded Slipper, and Other
Vietnamese Tales. Vo-Dinh Mai, illustrator. New York: Lippincott,
1985, c1982. Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover and paperback.
ATU 510A; from England. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Briggs, Katherine M., ed. A Dictionary of British
Folk-Tales in the English Language. London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1970, 1971.
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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ATU 510A; from Italy. Text available at Cenerentola.
An English language version is available in:
Basile, Giovanni Batiste. Il Pentamerone, or The
Tale of Tales. Sir Richard Burton, translator. London: Henry and
Company, 1893.
Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone. Benedetto
Croce, translator. New York: Dutton, 1932.
Basile, Giambattista. The Pentamerone, or The Story
of Stories. John Edward Taylor, translator. London: David Bogue,
1850.
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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You can also find a copy of The Pentamerone online
for free at Project Gutenberg.
ATU 510A; from
Canada. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions. It originally appeared in “Contes Populaires Canadiens” by C.-Marius Barbeau in The Journal of American Folklore in 1916.
An English language version is available in:
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ATU 510A; from
Italy. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions. “La Cenerentola” originally appeared in Novelline popolari Italiane by Domenico Comparetti in 1875.
An English language version is available in:
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ATU 510A; from
Russia. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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ATU 510A. Construct from European versions. Text available at The Cinder
Maid.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Jacobs, Joseph, ed. European Folk and Fairy Tales.
New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1916.
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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Wratislaw, A. H. Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively
Slavonic Sources. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890. p.
181-186.
ATU 510A; from China. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Eberhard, Wolfram, ed. Folktales of China. Desmond
Parsons, translator. Folktales of the World. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1965.
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Fairy Tales
of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, translator. New York: Bantam,
1987.
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Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. Household Tales. Margaret
Hunt, translator. London: George Bell, 1884.
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Crane, Thomas Frederick. Italian Popular Tales. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1885.
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Falassi, Alessandro. Folklore by the Fireside: Text
and Context of the Tuscan Veglia. Austin: University of Texas Press,
1980.
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Wardrop, Marjory. Georgian Folk Tales. London:
David Nutt, 1894.
Curtin, Jeremiah, ed. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland.
New York: Dover, 1975. (Appeared in 1890 originally as Myths and Folk-Lore
of Ireland. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.)
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Glassie, Henry, ed. Irish Folktales. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1985.
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D'Aulnoy, Marie Catherine Baronne. The Fairy
Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy. Miss Annie Macdonell and Miss Lee, translators.
Cllinton Peters, illustrator. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892.
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Zipes, Jack. Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments:
Classic French Fairy Tales. New York: New American Library,
1989.
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Zipes, Jack, ed. The Great Fairy Tale Tradition:
From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. New York: W. W.
Norton, 2001.
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ATU 870; from Denmark. Text available at Girl Clad in Mouseskin. Marian Roalfe Cox considered it a Cinderella variant and it works well enough as such, too.
An English language version is available in:
Boose, Claire, ed. Scandinavian Folk and Fairy Tales: Tales from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland. New York: Avenel Books: 1984. p. 493.
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Thorpe, Benjamin, Yule-Tide Stories. London, 1888. pp. 375-380.
ATU 510A; from the American
Southwest. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Espinosa, Aurelio M. The Folklore of Spain in the
American Southwest. J. Manuel Espinosa, ed. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1985.
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ATU 510A; from Denmark. Text available at The
Green Knight. on D. L. Ashliman's site.
According to Ashliman, "This tale combines elements
of a traditional Cinderella story (Aarne-Thompson type 510A) with those
of type 425N (The Bird Husband) and type 432 (The Prince as Bird)."
An English language version is available in:
Grundtvig, Svendt. Danish Fairy Tales. J. Grant
Cramer, translator. Boston: Four Seas Company, 1919.
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Pedroso, Consiglieri. Portuguese
Folk-Tales. Folk Lore Society Publications, Vol. 9. Miss Henrietta
Monteiro, translator. New York: Folk Lore Society Publications, 1882.
[Reprinted: New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1969.]
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Thompson, Stith, ed. One Hundred Favorite Folktales.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.
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Clarkson, Atelia, and Cross, Gilbert, B., eds. World
Folktales: A Scribner Resource Collection. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1980.
Cole, Joanna, ed. Best-Loved Folktales of the World. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.
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Macmillan, Cyrus. Canadian Wonder Tales. Toronto:
John Lane, 1920.
ATU 510A; from Vietnam. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Graham, Gail B. The Beggar in the Blanket and Other
Vietnamese Tales. Brigitte Bryan, illustrator. New York: Dial Press,
1970. Amazon.com: Buy the book in hardcover.
Asbjornsen, Peter Christen and Moe, Jorgen. East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. George Webbe Dasent, translator. Popular Tales from the Norse. Edinburgh: David Douglass, 1888.
Dasent, George Webbe. East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. New
York: Dover, 1970.
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ATU 510A; from the Micmac tribe
in North America. Text available at Little
Burnt Face.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Olcott, Frances Jenkins. The Red Indian Fairy Book. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1917.
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ATU 510A; from Sweden. Text available at The
Little Gold Shoe. Note that seven more variants are provided in
the notes to this tale.
An English language version is available
in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Thorpe, Benjamin. Yule-Tide Stories. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853.
ATU 510A; from
Egypt. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
Originally collected and published in a French language collection of tales, Contes Populaires Inédits de la Vallée du Nil by S. E. Yacoub Artin Pacha, “Le Pot Enchanté” was appropriated and embellished by J. C. Mardrus for his translation of Les Mille et Une Nuits (1899-1904). Mardrus’ version of The Arabian Nights was a commercial success and was translated into English by Powys Mathers in 1923. Scholars now dismiss Mardrus’ Arabian Nights as inaccurate and fanciful although some admit that the stories, while not authentic Arabian Nights tales, are beautifully told.
Through this appropriation, the tale known as “The Anklet” in Mathers’ translation, is commonly known as an Arabian Nights Cinderella. The tale, while collected in Egypt, was not from any Arabian Nights manuscripts and is thus erroneously identified as such. The Mardrus/Mathers version changes the tale’s lost bracelet to an anklet, drawing inspiration from the tale’s footnote stating that anklet versions of the tale exist. Mardrus also added details that enchanced the Cinderella elements, such as identifying the sisters as stepsisters. The following is a new English translation of the original tale from Contes Populaires Inédits de la Vallée du Nil. For comparison, an English language translation of the Mardrus/Mathers version can be found in A Thousand and One Nights, Vol. 4, published by Routledge.
Other adaptations of this tale include a retelling by Naomi Lewis in Stories from the Arabian Nights(1987) and a picture book, The Persian Cinderella by Shirley Climo (1999). Both of these versions identify the tale as an Arabian Nights story.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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ATU 510A; from Haiti. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Wolkstein, Diane. The Magic Orange Tree, and Other
Haitian Folktales. Elsa Henriquez, illustrator. New York: Knopf,
1978. Amazon.com: Buy the book in paperback.
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Pedroso, Consiglieri. Portuguese
Folk-Tales. Folk Lore Society Publications, Vol. 9. Miss Henrietta
Monteiro, translator. New York: Folk Lore Society Publications, 1882.
[Reprinted: New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1969.]
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ATU 510A. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
An English language version is available in:
Bodker, Laurits; Hole, Christina; and D'Aronoco, G.,
eds. European Folk Tales. European Folklore Series, vol. 1. Copenhagen:
Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1963.
ATU 510A; from Serbia. Text available at Papalluga.
An English language version is available in:
Denton, Rev. W., editor. Serbian Folk-lore: Popular
Tales selected and translated by Madame Csedomille Mijatovics. London,
1874. Pp. 59-66. (Reprinted New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968).
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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ATU 510A; from Serbia. Text available at Pepelyouga.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Petrovitch, Woislav M. Hero Tales and Legends of
the Serbians. London: George G. Harrap and Company, 1917.
ATU 510A; from Scotland. Text available at Rashin-Coatie.
An English language version is available in:
Douglad, George. Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales. London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1901.
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Rhodopis, an Egyptian tale, is popularly labeled the earliest or first Cinderella story. The tale was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the first century BC/AD and is generally considered to be loosely based upon a real person written about by Herodotus five hundred years before Strabo’s time. Rhodopis also appeared in Aelian’s Varia Historia (13.33) around the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. The tale was popularized as an Egyptian Cinderella during the 19th century with several literary retellings.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Jacobs, Joseph, ed. More English Fairy Tales. New York: G. P Putnam's Sons, n. d.
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Campbell, J. F. Popular Tales of the West Highlands:
Orally Collected. London: Alexander Gardner, 1890-1893. (Reprint
available from Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1969.)
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paperback (Volume 2).
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ATU 510A (loosely); from India. Text available at Sodewa
Bai.
An English language version is available in:
Frere, Mary. Old Deccan Days; or, Hindoo Fairy Legends
Current in Southern India. London: J. Murray, 1868.
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Bach-Lan, L. T. Vietnamese Legends. Saigon: Kim-Lai-An-Quan,
1957.
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor.Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Wheeler, Post. Russian Wonder Tales. New York: The Century Company, 1912.
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Knowles, J. Hinton. Folk-Tales of Kashmir. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1893.
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Lang, Andrew, ed. The Red Fairy Book. New York:
Dover, 1966. (Original published 1890.)
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You can also find a copy of The Red Fairy Book online for free at Project Gutenberg.
ATU 510A; from
China. A web version of this tale does not exist due to copyright
restrictions.
The story of Yeh-hsien, also known as Yeh-Shen and Sheh Hsien, is the oldest known Cinderella tale recorded in the Orient. It appears in Yu Yang Tsa Tsu (Miscellany of Forgotten Lore) written by Tuan Ch’êng-shih around 856-860 AD/CE.
An English language version is available in:
Heiner, Heidi Anne, editor. Cinderella Tales From Around the World. Nashville: SurLaLune Press with CreateSpace, 2012.
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Jameson, R. D. “Cinderella in China.” Three Lectures on Chinese Folklore. Peking: North China Union Language School, 1932. Pp. 47-85. Reprinted in Dundes, Cinderella: A Casebook (pp. 71-97).
Louie, Ai-Ling. Yeh-Shen. New York: Puffin Books, 1982.
Waley, Arthur. “The Chinese Cinderella Story.” Folk-Lore. Vol. 58, No. 1 (Mar. 1947), pp. 226-238.