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European folk tale

This article is about the folk tale. For other uses, see Cinderella (disambiguation).

"Cinderella",^[a] or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world.^[2][3] The protagonist is a young girl living in forsaken circumstances who is suddenly blessed by remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage.

The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story.^[2][3][4]

The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps pass