1819 German, Grimm version.
1 And as she always looked dusty and dirty, they named her Aschenputtel .
2 But he would have her fetched, and so Aschenputtel had to appear.
3 Then she turned her back on poor Aschenputtel , and made haste to set out with her two proud daughters.
4 And when he reached home he gave to the step-daughters what they had wished for, and to Aschenputtel he gave the hazel-twig.
5 Of Aschenputtel they never thought at all, and supposed that she was sitting at home, and picking the lentils out of the ashes.
6 The step-mother and the two sisters were thunderstruck, and grew pale with anger; but he put Aschenputtel before him on his horse and rode off.
7 "But what will you have, Aschenputtel ? "
8 "It cannot surely be Aschenputtel , " and called for an axe, and felled the tree, but there was no one in it.
9 "No, Aschenputtel , you have no proper clothes, and you do not know how to dance, and you would be laughed at!"
10 "It cannot surely be Aschenputtel , " and called for axes and hatchets, and had the pigeon-house cut down, but there was no one in it.
11 "No," said the man, "only my dead wife left behind her a little stunted Aschenputtel ; it is impossible that she can be the bride."
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