Cinderella is the fairytale that little girls know and love.

It is the tale of the sweet step daughter
entrapped by her wicked stepmother and stepsisters,
doomed to live a poor life and be treated as a servant.
It is when she is crying by the cinders and wishing to go to the ball
that her Fairy Godmother shows to make her wishes come true.

She is magically transformed
into a georgeous princess wearing the richest clothes,
including glass slippers, she rides to the ball
in a golden carriage and has serving men.

She receives a curfew of midnight in which she will transform back
into a servant girl and lose her transportation.
Of course, the prince falls madly in love with her and asks her to stay
when suddenly she hears the bell toll midnight.
She frantically dashes out the door, leaving one glass slipper behind.

The step sisters arrive home
distraught about the anonymous young woman.
The next day, the prince makes his way around the kingdom
to have every young maiden try on the slipper.
He finds the cottage that the stepmother, stepsisters, and Cindrella live.

This is where the fairytale changes from the beautiful story we grew up with
and turns into the gruesome fairytale once written by the Grimms brothers.

Instead of the two sisters just "trying on the shoe",
one sister is forced by the wicked stepmother to "chop" off her big toe.
The other sister must "hack" off a bit of her heel
in the attempt to wear the shoe.

As the prince rides off both times with the young maidens,
he is told by the pidgeons that there is blood in her shoe,
and that his true love still waits for him.
He finds Cinderella, the very last maiden in the kingdom,
the shoe fits and they marry.

Instead of letting the sisters and stepmother
stay in the castle or live in peace,
they were shackled up
and tortured until the end of their days.