In Egypt it was leather, but in China gold. Much later in France, it was glass (or maybe fur), and later still, in Germany, it was gold again. What is it?

gmackematix

I don't know about the Egyptian version as the tale appears to have originated in China, where their Cinderella's feet were bound and the smallest in the land. Charles Perrault's is the famous version with the "partouffle de verre" that some say should have been "vair". The Grimms rewrote the tale with golden slippers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella May 31 05, 8:46 PM

lanfranco

I'll give you a yay! In the Chinese version, the slippers are gold. The "Egyptian" version (recorded in the 2nd century C.E.) involves a maiden named Rhodope, whose sandal is carried off by an eagle and found by the Pharaoh in Memphis. He declares that he must have the owner of the sandal as his wife and searches all of Egypt for her. Marina Warner, in her book "From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers," does a nice deconstruction of the Cinderella tradition --in perfectly straightforward and non-deconstructionist language. May 31 05, 9:03 PM

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