Talk:Into the Woods/@comment-16811522-20140619194655/@comment-25697799-20150111162220

To Agustinaldo.

Grimm brothers didn't invented their fairytales. They just recorded folk German tales. So, their Cinderella is the way this story was known in German folklore. And Perrault,s version is French. There are many fairytales that are known in nearly all Europian folklore with minor differencies, and Cinderella is among them. I have seen versions of it among Latvian, Russian and Estonian fairytales as well, despite they are not known widely.

As an example of other all-European folk stories, I can mention Thumbling (apart from German and English versions, there are a Russian one, a Latvian one, a Bulgarian one, an Italian one and a Greek one), Allerleirah (German, French - as Donkey Skin, English - as Catskin (and Cap of Rushes as well)), The Magical Ring (Italian, Latvian, Russian and... Japanese. Yes, Japan is far from Europe, but the stories are really alike)..