- Can be dated back to the Greek culture of sixth century BC.
- There is also a Chinese version of the story includes a ninth-century fairy tale in which a young woman is granted a wish from magic fish bones which she then uses to make a gown.
- There are more than 500 versions of the Cinderella story in Europe alone.
- A 17th-century Italian version introduced the wicked stepmother and stepsisters.
- Sixty years later a French writer named Charles Perault cast the form that Cinderella would take for the next 400 years. He introduced the glass slipper, the pumpkin, and the fairy godmother. This is the version Disney later adapted into its animated classic.
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