#EVERYONE HAS A STORY GLASS FULL#
We slap that title on movies and books, but also on basketball games won by tiny schools full of scrawny nerds, small businesses that thrive and even political ascendancies that upend established powers. To try to figure out what exactly that story is and why we still have it, we have to separate out the folk tale that is Cinderella, though, from the turn of phrase that is "Cinderella story." Americans will call almost anything a Cinderella story that involves a good thing happening to someone nice. The film that's coming out this weekend may be bent and polished, stripped of some of its themes and relieved of its bone-burying - and Cinderella may now be an established part of the Disney princess racket - but this is still recognizably a story of which 345 versions could already be found almost 125 years ago. Lily James is Cinderella in Disney's live-action version of the classic fairy tale, which it helped make famous in a 1950 cartoon.Īs Disney releases another Cinderella adaptation - this one live-action, directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Lily James as Cinderella and Cate Blanchett as her evil stepmother - we see again how perplexingly durable this story is, particularly for something so slight. There's a Vietnamese variant called Kajong And Haloek in which the evil foster mother of the Cinderella figure, Kajong, is tricked into eating the flesh of her own dead daughter (who boiled herself alive trying to be as beautiful as Kajong) - punishment for them both. It's no fairy godmother, but you don't look your mother's gift bones in the. Fortunately, her mother's bones turn into coins and beautiful magic dresses. (A deal's a deal?) Cinderella decides not to eat her mother, but to wait until the killing and eating is over, then bury her mother's bones. When Mom proves clumsy, the sisters indeed eat her.
One begins with Cinderella, her two older sisters and their mother agreeing to a whimsical bet: First one to drop her spinning spool will be eaten by the others.
That's not the strangest variant in the book, and it is certainly not the darkest. This version is an obvious relative of Cinderella but not quite Cinderella it's presented as one of the variants of Catskin, a related tale that also has a hard-working girl who meets a prince at a ball while in disguise and is then recognized and rescued. This image is from Grimms Eventyr (Grimm's Fairy Tales) by Carl Ewald, published in 1922. This illustration accompanied the tale "Cinderella" and shows Cinderella being left by her stepsisters to do the housework. In 1812, the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. When he finds jewelry in his food, he realizes she is his beloved, and they get married. Later, when she prepares his breakfast in the guise of his once-ensquashed servant, she slips into the breakfast the gifts he gave her at the ball when they danced. They meet and he gives her gifts and so on. The prince keeps her at the palace but mistreats her terribly, even beating her and kicking her to prevent her from attending his ball, but she gets there anyway without his knowing it's her (which is one reason it seems certain she's out of the squash by now). At some point, she presumably emerges from it - the details offered in the book about this particular folk tale are limited - and she becomes a servant. If nothing else, perhaps it has a future in show business. Our heroine is discovered by a prince, who finds the talking gourd and takes it home. In this version of the story, the heroine is born inside a gourd and accidentally abandoned in the forest - understandable, given that her mother has just brought forth a squash from within her person, and the last thought she's entertaining is probably, "Hey, I'll take that with me." This is the opening to the description of an Italian variant of the Cinderella folk tale - or, really, a relative of one of its relatives - taken from a book called Cinderella three hundred and forty-five variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap o'Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with a discussion of mediaeval analogues, and notes, written by Marian Roalfe Cox and published in 1893. Cinderella and her fairy godmother in the 1950 Disney cartoon.
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