Cinderella's mother asks her on her deathbed to remain kind. Cinderella is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, but remains good. She asks God for help at her mother's grave. A white bird grants her wishes. Cinderella attends balls where the prince falls for her, but she flees at midnight, losing a slipper. The prince searches for the slipper's owner, and it fits Cinderella. Her stepsisters are punished for their cruelty by being struck blind at Cinderella's wedding.

1. Cinderella
A rich gentleman's wife lay dying, and calling her only daughter to her bedside, asked her to remain kind and
generous, and God will protect her. She then died and was buried. After a transition of seasons (winter and
spring) the widower married another woman, who had two daughters of her own; they were beautiful yet cruel
and wicked. The stepsisters destroyed the girl's clothes, sent her into the kitchen to do the worst chores, and
renamed her Cinderella. Despite all of this the girl remained good and pious, and would always go to her
mother's grave to cry and pray to God to give better circumstances for herself.
One day, the gentleman visits a fair, promising his stepdaughters gifts of luxury. One asks for beautiful dresses,
while the other for pearls and diamonds. His own daughter merely asks for the first twig that will hit his hat off
on the way. The gentleman goes into his way, and acquires presents for his stepdaughters. While passing a forest
he gets a hazel twig, and gives it to his daughter. She plants the twig over her mother's grave, waters it with her
tears and over the years, it grows into a glowing hazel tree. Under it the girl would pray for thrice a day, and a
white bird would always come to talk and grant her everything she would ask for.
The king decides to give a festival that will last for three whole days and nights, and invites all the beautiful
maidens in the land to attend, because the prince is supposed to select from one of them a bride for himself. The
two sisters were also invited, but when Cinderella begged them to allow her to go with them into the celebration,
the stepmother scoffed her off, because she had no dress nor shoes to wear. When the girl insisted, the woman
threw a dish of lentils into the ashes for her to pick up, guaranteeing her permission to attend the festival, and
when the girl accomplished the task in less than an hour with the help of two, white doves sent by God from
Heaven, the stepmother only redoubled the task and threw down even a greater quantity of lentils. When
Cinderella was able to accomplished it in a greater speed, not wanting to spoil her daughters' chances, the
stepmother hasted away with them to the ball and left the crying stepdaughter behind.
The girl retreats to the graveyard to ask for help. The white bird drops a silver gown and silk shoes. She goes to
the ball, with the precaution of leaving before midnight. The prince dances with her, but she eludes him before
midnight strikes. The next evening, the girl appeared in a grander apparel. The prince fell in-love with her and
danced her the whole evening, but when midnight came, she left again. The third evening, she appeared dressed
with gold. Now the prince was determined to keep her, and had entire stairway smeared with pitch. Cinderella
lost her track of time, and when she ran away to leave, one of her golden slippers stuck on that pitch. The prince
proclaimed that he would marry the maiden whose foot would fit the golden slipper.
The next morning, the prince went into Cinderella's house and tried the slipper on the eldest stepsister. The sister
was advised by her mother to cut off her heel in order to fit the slipper, and while riding with the prince, the two
doves from Heaven told the Prince that blood drips from her heel. Appalled at her treachery, he went back again
and tried the slipper to the other stepsister. She cut off her toe in order to get in her foot in the slipper, and again
the prince was fooled. While he was riding with her on the way to the king's castle, the doves alerted him again
about the blood on her foot. He came back to inquire for another girl. The gentleman tells him that they kept a
kitchen-maid in the house - yet did not mention that she was his own daughter - and the prince asked him to let
her try the slipper. The girl appeared after washing herself, and when she had put on the slipper, the prince
recognized her as the stranger he danced at the ball.
In the end during Cinderella's wedding, as she was walking down the aisle with her stepsisters as her
bridesmaids, for they had hoped to worm their way into her favor, the doves from Heaven flew down and struck
the two stepsister's eyes, one in the left and the other in the right. When the wedding comes to an end, and
Cinderella and her prince march out of the church, the doves fly again, striking the remaining eyes of the two
evil sisters blind, a punishment they have to endure for the rest of their lives.