Brick Fairy Tales: Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Hansel and Gretel, and More (10 page)

He absolutely insisted on it, and Cinderella had to be called.

She first washed her hands and face clean,

and then went and bowed down before the King’s son, who gave her the golden shoe.

Then she seated herself on a stool, drew her foot out of the heavy wooden shoe,

and put it into the slipper, which fitted like a glove.

And when she rose up and the King’s son looked at her face he recognized the beautiful maiden who had danced with him and cried, “That is the true bride!”

The step-mother and the two sisters were terrified and became pale with rage;

he, however, took Cinderella on his horse and rode away with her.

As they passed by the hazel-tree, the two white doves cried—

“Turn and peep, turn and peep, No blood is in the shoe,

The shoe is not too small for her, The true bride rides with you,”

and when they had cried that, the two came flying down and placed themselves on Cinderella’s shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left, and remained sitting there.

When the wedding with the King’s son had to be celebrated,

the two false sisters came and wanted to get into favour with Cinderella and share her good fortune.

When the betrothed couple went to church, the elder was at the right side and the younger at the left, and the pigeons pecked out one eye of each of them.