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Last Cinderella post for now

09Feb10

. . . and only because of the comments! Certainly, on the surface this is a story of sibling rivalry, of a child feeling that her (step) mother loves her siblings more than her, and of sibling rivalry set right. Bettelheim, in The Uses of Enchantment, says it is a story “. . . of […]


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More on Cinderella

07Feb10

in the Brothers Grimm tale Cinderella’s helpers are two birds in a tree which grew from Cinderella’s mother’s grave (& interestingly partially preserved in the Disney version)


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