Algonquin, Ascghenputtle And Yeh-Shen

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Cinderella

There may be hundreds of Cinderella stories but these three are my favorite Algonquin, Ascghenputtle, and Yeh-Shen. All these stories are very similar like all have a Cinderella characters and magic, they are also very old like Yeh-Shen is over 1,000 years old. Cinderella was treated very poorly because she had to stay home and clean up the other people’s mess. But of course Cinderella always gets the prince and they live happily ever after.

All these stories have a different view point like the step mother and sisters think there not doing things mean to Cinderella when they are. Also all Cinderella stories are in different countries. Cinderella’s view point is different too like she knows the step mother and sisters are treating

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