One day the King declares that he will have a festival, lasting three days. Another reference to the number 3. All of the beautiful maidens are invited so that the prince can choose a bride. The step-mother sees a great opportunity for one of her daughters to marry a wealthy man, but not if Ashenputtel is there. She demands of Ashenputtel to perform not one but two seemingly impossible tasks, pick one, then two, bowls of lentils from the ashes. Ashenputtel has no problem, with a couple of magical incantations and all of her little familiar spirit friends to help, she obeys her step-mother quickly. The step-mother still refuses to be kind or to keep her word. Off they go to the festival, leaving Ashenputtel at home to magically ask the Hazel tree to provide her with all she needs. Twice she eludes the prince and makes it home after the dancing is over but on the third night the prince puts a sticky substance on the stairs and captures her shoe. We all know what happened then: the Prince took the shoe, found the maiden and …show more content…
And Compare the two versions of Cinderella Grimm’s and Perrault’s nature versus magic, moral education, darker themes, and happy endings
Grimm’s Aschenputtel is different from Perrault’s The Little Glass Slipper in many ways but this paper will focus on presenting four differences: nature versus magic, moral education, darker themes, and happy endings. First, Aschenputtel, like all Grimm tales uses nature for divine intervention instead of magic while Cendrillon, in The Little Glass Slipper, receives help from a fairy godmother https://sites.google.com/site/glassslippers2011/analysis-of-cindererlla/viii-specific-edits

- this version was not written in medieval times! On the way to and from the church the step-sisters are attacked by the birds and left blind for the rest of their days. I need to put this here It is the dead mother who punishes from the grave and cite how I know