Cinderella

Hello! and welcome to my website. To answer the question from visitors wanting to know a little background to the Disney Characters, I have compiled a list, here is some information about the characters, who you may meet at the:-

Disney-Magic-Kingdom.

in Orlando,Florida.

The Little Glass Slipper" is a classic folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward.

Thousands of variants are known throughout the world.

The title character is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune.

Cinderella's Castle

The still-popular story, continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, and tropes to a wide variety of media.

There is also Cinderella-Castle, information here

Magic Kingdom & the Greek Historian

The Greek historian Strabo recorded in the 1st century BC the tale of the Greco-Egyptian girl Rhodopis, "rosy-cheeked", who lived in the Greek colony of Naucratis in Ancient Egypt.

It is often considered the oldest known version of the story:

They tell the fabulous story that, when she was bathing, an eagle snatched one of her sandals from her maid and carried it to Memphis;

and while the king was administering justice in the open air, the eagle, when it arrived above his head, flung the sandal into his lap;

and the king, stirred both by the beautiful shape of the sandal and by the strangeness of the occurrence, sent men in all directions into the country in quest of the woman who wore the sandal;

and when she was found in the city of Naucratis, she was brought up to Memphis, became the wife of the king

Walt Disney World Cinderelaa and Aesop

She was taken to Egypt in the time of Pharaoh Amasis, and freed there for a large sum by Charaxus of Mytilene, brother of Sappho the lyric poet.

Cinderella and the pumpkin

The magical significance of the pumpkin in the Cinderella story, which has led to the modern expression by someone who desires an early bedtime,

'after midnight, I turn into a pumpkin', might derive from the 1st century comic work of Seneca

'On the Pumpkinification of Claudius', playing on a pun for the word for deification and the word for pumpkin.

Cinderella Mary the Crab

Here the hardworking and lovely girl befriends a fish, the reincarnation of her mother, who was killed by her stepmother.

Ye Xian saves the bones, which are magic, and they help her dress appropriately for a festival.

When she loses her slipper after a fast exit, the king finds her and falls in love with her.

Another version of the story which is almost similar to the Chinese version exists in the Philippines, the story is known as "Mariang Alimango" (Mary the Crab).

In this version, the spirit of her dead mother reincarnates as a crab, hence the title, and serves as her "fairy godmother".

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