Motif
Persecuted stepchild reduced to kitchen ashes
persecuted_stepchild_reduced_to_kitchen_ashes
A motif of the Jealous Stepmother and Persecuted Child family, within the sub-family Domestic Oppression, Labor, and Reward. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
germanic
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Household Tales by Brothers Grimm Household Tales by Brothers Grimm / CONTENTS; lines 3527-3617 confidence: high
The stepmother's daughters are fair-faced but black-hearted; they and the household strip Cinderella of fine clothes, mock her, force kitchen labor, scatter peas and lentils into ashes, and make her sleep by the fireside in the ashes.
Cinderella is stripped of fine clothing, mocked, made to do hard household labor, forced to sort food from ashes, and made to sleep by the fireside in ashes.
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