A young woman in peasant clothes knits as her cow grazes nearby.
The titular Little Red Cow not only helps the heroine of this tale escape, provides her beautiful gowns, and cooks the Sunday lunch, but she’s also an enchanted princess! #AnotherCinderella #folkyfriday #FolkloreThursday #donkeyskin #folkloreandfairytales #notdisneyprincess 🎨Jean-Francois Millet
Black and white illustration of two pretty young women, one dark-haired and one fair-haired, standing together. One girl has her finger under the other's chin.
After appearing from inside her hollow golden bull & winning the prince’s heart, the heroine is pushed into a charcoal burner’s pit by his fiancée. She survives & he throws his fiancée on a bonfire. Red flag? #AnotherCinderella #folkyfriday #donkeyskin #notdisneyprincess 🎨Helen Stratton
A dark haired young woman in 19th century clothes sleeps with her head pillowed on a stack of wheat sheaves.
After a fruitless ritual to search the otherworld for her dead mother (involving dressing & speaking to 9 dolls) & again after escaping her royal suitor, The Girl With the Louse-Skin Cloak keeps dozing off. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Jules Breton
A young woman runs down a grand and curving flight of steps, holding up her voluminous ball gown in both hands while one glass-slippered foot peeks out underneath. Her dark hair is piled up on the top of her head, and her white gown is so frothy and light, it could almost be made from feathers.
Margery White Coats has a gown of bird's-down to go with her glass slippers. Unlike many #donkeyskin tales, it’s the prince’s mother, not the prince, who throws things at her. Whew!
#AnotherCinderella #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #folkloreandfairytales #fairytales #Cinderella 🎨AH Watson
A young woman in Renaissance dress with long golden hair holds a note in one hand. On the other perches a pigeon, gazing up at her.
After setting out to sea in a chest (fleeing her father), this heroine drops one of her shoes at church. A little bird helps the prince weed out the many girls cutting their feet to fit. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #donkeyskin #fairytales #notdisneyprincess 🎨Ferdinand Kellar
A barefoot girl beside a large hearth. Text says, "Can a girl without glass slippers still be Cinderella?"
An ancient Egyptian woman, Rhodopis.
A Chinese woman in a green robe, Ye Xian.
A girl weaving rushes into a garment, Cap O Rushes.
Does a girl need glass slippers to be Cinderella? Check out these #AnotherCinderella s from around the world!
A girl wrapped in black, her face partially covered, approaches a bundle of clothes on a rock wall.
In addition to 3 spectacular dresses and a crow feather coat, Aschenpüster also asks her father for a magic wand which she uses to escape him (& the prince too). #AnotherCinderella #folkyfriday #fairytales #donkeyskin #folkloreandfairytales #notdisneyprincess 🎨Enrico Maltese
A woman richly dressed in Persian garments sits on a rug with a parrot.
Raised by crane parents w/ parrot, dog & cat siblings, The Scab Girl disguises herself with a covering of…well…scabs to escape a hungry Rakshi. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #donkeyskin #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales
🎨Warwick Goble
Black and white illustration of a man and woman in Renaissance clothing. The man grasps the woman's hand in one hand and holds her cloak open with the other as he takes a step closer to her. His expression is aggressive and triumphant.
Prince Charming's behavior in #Cinderella tales like Allerleirauh raises some red flags, not least of which is the violence w/ which he rips off her furry cloak. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #folklore #notdisneyprincess #donkeyskin #brothersgrimm #brothersgrimm 🎨Maurice Sendak
A young woman in a long, flower print dress stands in the crook of a tree, one hand holding back her windblown hair. Her expression is intense but inscrutable. The image is black and white but with a green tint over it all.
By daylight, Maria Wood wears a gown of, well, wood. But by night she wears her dress of chimes & climbs a tree near the palace, leaving everyone to wonder where the music comes from. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #fairytales 🎨Elizabeth Shippen Green
Black and white image of a shepherdess pulling a leather-like hood over her head. Behind are her sheep and sheepdog.
When Pigskin Hood asks for the celestial gown her dead mother advises, her father only becomes “more amorous”—Oh no. But when she dons the pigskin hood, he drives her away in disgust—Whew! #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Daniel Ridgeway Knight
A maid comes out the doorway of a thatched cottage to see a girl dressed in a donkey skin surrounded by pigs, geese, and turkeys.
You KNOW Donkeyskin's creepy, greedy dad wants her more than anything when he agrees to kill his favorite donkey to get her compliance. Why? Because it…um…excretes gold. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #donkeyskin #fairytales #folklore #notdisneyprincess 🎨Gustave Fraipont
A man in chain mail kneels and kisses the hand of a richly dressed, crowned woman on a throne. She is clearly dead.
La Giorgia dons an especially gruesome disguise (hint: she buys it from a grave digger) & the palace geese let the prince know she’s more lively than she appears. #AnotherCinderella #fairytales #catskin #folkloreandfairytales #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Pierre-Charles Comte
A young woman in Renaissance dress stands looking at something in her hand. An old woman stands behind her holding a bowl.
Mona Caterina's old lady/fairy helper gives her an old woman disguise. But the King guesses the secret of his "mature" goose girl when he spies on her bathing after her geese sing of her beauty. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #fairytales #catskin 🎨Ary Scheffer
A young woman stands in a wooded area, ready to cut off her long hair. She is dressed in a medieval tunic and hose. Her women's clothes are at her feet. Her expression is anxious.
Pellicciotto isn’t fleeing a creepy father, just off to seek her fortune. Fairy Godmother says dress like a man and cover up with a fur cloak & the King of Portugal calls her Ugly-Skin. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #fairytales 🎨Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Portrait of young woman in mid-19th century riding dress. She's mounted on an elegant white horse who's eyeing her nervously.
This princess’s governess advises she procure an all-white horse for her eventual disguise as an “ugly beast” (the sweet nickname Prince Charming calls her). She prefers he call her Maria Wood. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨 Charles Édouard Boutibonne
An 18th century poultry maid stands in the middle of a farmyard holding a large dish of grain. She is surrounded by ducks, geese, and chickens. She wears a cap and has an apron over her gown.
When this heroine gets her gowns & makes her disguise of pigskin, she flees her father in an invisible flying chest then minds the fowls while the prince threatens to beat her. Um… #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #fairytales #catskin #notdisneyprincess 🎨Marie Francois Firmin-Girard
A young woman stands before a seated old man with a long white beard. Her back is to the viewer and she's anxiously twisting her fingers behind her back.
In Popeljuha Zavaljuha the king promised his dying wife he'll only remarry a woman who fits her ring. The unlucky winner is her daughter (who escapes & claims her chosen mate by giving him…half a ring). #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess #folklore
🎨August Bourotte
A young woman with long, fair hair gets dressed in her poor, shabby bedroom. She is fastening a beautiful silver gown covered all over with stars.
To avoid marrying her father, this heroine takes her dead mother’s advice & asks him for an impossible, celestial gown. But with the Devil’s aid, he pulls it from a nutshell. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #fairytales #folkloreandfairytales #notdisneyprincess
🎨Arthur Rackham
A young woman in a gown of cat skins (black, tabby, spotted, complete with tails) walks out of a wood. She carries a cloth bundle in one hand. Her feet are bare.
After over 100 more traditional #Cinderella tales, I’m shifting to ATU 510B tales for a while, starting with The Princess in the Catskins. Get ready for icky dads, celestial gowns in nutshells, & wild disguises! #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Arthur Rackham
A friendly-looking hooded giant holds a tiny woman in its open hand above a forest. She is dressed in 18th century style, an elegant gown and powdered wig. She looks down demurely.
This wiley youngest daughter of a king so poor that the queen abandons the princesses Hansel and Gretel-style not only gets them out of their plight, but kills two giants in the process! #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨John Bauer
A man on horseback confronts a troll-like crone coming out of a tree.
When Mjadveig’s prince finds out her stepsister is impersonating her, he turns her into a #troll, kills her & feeds her to her mother (who turns into a troll before he blows her up). Let’s just say he’s nonplussed. #AnotherCinderella #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Gustaf Tenggren
An older man urges an unwilling looking young woman to look at a picture. Behind him is an embarrassed looking young man.
In this Swedish story fragment, it’s not her stepmother causing #Cinderella trouble at home, but her father—saying she has to marry the man-servant. Not to worry though--she escapes on the family bull. 🐃
#fairytales #folklore #AnotherCinderella #folkyfriday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Gaspare Traversi
Two young ladies in Victorian dress, one coming up behind the other blowing a whistle in her ear. The other girl covers her ears and moves her head away.
While the tormentor of the #GooseGirl is not her sister, there is a #Cinderella like sibling rivalry feel to this story, especially considering some Cinderella tales feature the sister as the false bride. #FairyTaleTuesday #AnotherCinderella #NotDisneyPrincess #fairytales 🎨 HG Schlesinger
A young woman in a golden gown sits at a table with tea and biscuits. Her little dog sits across from her on the table begging for a treat.
The heroine of The Golden Bracelet, whose stepsister takes her place with her betrothed, is part #GooseGirl, part #Cinderella. She puts things right by confiding not in the fire, but her little dog.
🎨 Philippe Mercier
#fairytales #FolkloreThursday #folkyfriday #AnotherCinderella #notdisneyprincess
A little like the heroines in some #Cinderella stories, the #GooseGirl has a dead friend to provide some support. In this case, it's the decapitated head of her beloved horse. 🎨 Arthur Rackam #AnotherCinderella #FairyTaleTuesday #notdisneyprincess #brothersgrimm
I'm taking a break from #AnotherCinderella for a bit to talk about the #GooseGirl, a gruesome tale of identity theft in which the princess's maid takes her place--and everything else. Don't worry, she gets what's coming to her. #FolkloreThursday 🎨 Hope Dunlap @folklorethursday.bsky.social
I'm taking a break from #AnotherCinderella for a bit to talk about the #GooseGirl, a gruesome tale of identity theft in which the princess's maid takes her place--and everything else. Don't worry, she gets what's coming to her. #FairyTaleTuesday #notdisneyprincess 🎨 Hope Dunlap
Like the heroines of some #AnotherCinderella tales, the #GooseGirl knows some magic words. She speaks out to keep an annoying (if not downright creepy) co-worker out of her hair. #FairyTaleTuesday #notdisneyprincess 🎨 Arthur Rackham
While her bird friends perform the impossible task of pea-sorting, it’s an angel from heaven who brings The Stepdaughter a golden gown. #AnotherCinderella #FairyTaleTuesday #notdisneyprincess 🎨Gustaf Tenngren
