The Cinder-Maid
- Prince was to take a bride
- Cinder-Maid: (Cinderella?) Had to do all of the chores around the house while her step-mother favored, gave her step-sisters beautiful dresses and treated them much better.
- Was not supported of going to the ball except by her father who didn't defend his daughter enough.
- Hazel Tree
- A bird spoke to her to open a nut that fell - beautiful silk blue dress came from it
- Tree opened and out come a coach, horses, coachman and footmen
- Back by midnight
- Prince danced only with Cinder-Maid when she arrived
- Mist prevented the Prince's soldiers from seeing where she went.
- The step-sisters spoke well of the lady (Cinder-Maid) at the ball
- Prince set a honey trap to try and stop her from leaving.
- 3 different balls - 3 different dress from tree
- Prince had tar put out-shoe left
- Shoe to fit new bride-to-be
- Eldest step-sister cut off her toe to fit the shoe (so did other sister) Cinder-Maid's fit
- "Some cut their heel, and some cut their toe, But she sat by the fire who could wear the shoe"
- Jack: simple minded and backward in his thought.
- Was sent to 3 years of school to learn something by his father
- Learnt what animals said
- His father didn't like what Jack said a bird said about his dad and conspired for him to be killed
- The animals warned and told Jack of things people at different castles didn't know and got rewarded.
- Became "Pope of all Christendom and he took the name of Pope Sylvester"
- Forgave his father
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| The Language of Animals Source: Mythology and Folklore UnTextbook |
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