This episode is produced by Anne Hamilton, April Favenger, Bruce Strong,

Caroline Mathlin, Courtney Hickling, Darren Davis, Eric Mansea,

Frida, Gabriel Stalker, H Hena Kay, Isaac Thompson, Jennifer Clickinbeard, Joe Stillwell,

Juliet Lynch, Kathleen Hale, Nicholas Tara, Peter Gordon, Peter Shannon,

Saude Al-Hasan, Esti Fifei, I think,

Tracy Motica, and Vaughn M Dennis.

Please forgive my voice on getting over a head cold.

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This episode is true to the original Cinderella tales by Charles Perot and the Brothers Grimm.

It contains some language, gets a little edgy, it has violence and adult

motifs that some might not find suitable. Discretion is advised. Hello and welcome to Disney Story Origins, episode 19, Cinderella. You're going to see. Oh, For many people, if someone mentions Cinderella, it immediately brings to mind the images created

by Disney back in the 1950s, the sweeping ball gown, the glass slipper, the fairy godmother, but Cinderella's story is much, much older than that.

And while there are plenty of big names in folklore, it doesn't get bigger than Cinderella.

If you're using the Arne Thompson Uther Index,

you're going to look at magical tales,

drill down to supernatural helpers,

there, number 15A, Cinderella, who unlike many other fairy tale heroines has her own

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