Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella

This is a word by word translation from the german title: Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel.
Not everybody may know the story of Cinderella, though I doubt it. A version of it, I am sure,
can be found in every fairytale book around the world. Just under another name.
To give a hint, here is the story in short:  Once upon a time (German: Es war einmal) a widower with one daughter, who marries a widow with two (or sometomes just one) daughter(s). After his death, Cinderella is relegate down to the ranks of servant.
Of the lowest kind, working in the ashes mainly and sleeping there, too.
At one time after that, a prince comes into town or the prince of the country is to search a wife among the young ladies of money in his country. Every single ladie is wild to catch him. Cinderella would just like to go to the ball. And so she does, with the help of (here's a choice): three nuts, a very Godmother, three fairies or any other good person...
At the ball of course, she is the most beautifull of the ladies and naturally, the prince falls for her. The trouble ist though, that she has to live by midnight, or just rather hurriedly and on her run looses one of her (glass or other material) slipper. The prince, running after her, finds it and on the next day goes on a hunt for her, taking the shoe to find the lady, who's foot fits it. But it takes quite a while. Then he comes to her stepmothers house and by some unfortunate (from the stepmothers point of view) accident, Cinderella appears, tries on the shoe, can produce the other one and if the didn't die, the live on happily ever after. Or, as we end in Germany: und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute.

And under the above-mentioned title, there exists a film from the Czech Republic of the eighties, I think. Since then it has been shown on german TV every year around christmas. It's like the Sissy Films or Dinner for One on New Years Eve. A tradition. Just lovely. Today I saw it again after several years. And it was really gripping, even though I know the story and have seen it very often in the past 30 years. Gosh, am I old.
Of Cinderella of course, there are several famous film versions, two of them are "Cinderella" by Walt Disney and "The Glass Slipper" with Leslie Caron. Another favourite and I am sure, about every country with a film company has produced a version of this fairy tale or any other.

So today is fairytale day...

This is the theme song, you could say, from "The Glass Slipper". I like it. Even though you might not.  I certainly don't own the clip. But do I ever? Not as yet.

What would interest me: do you know the story of Cinderella and under what name do you remember it? One could put together an nternational version. Not me, because I am still struggling with my own story. Didn't get any further with it since Friday either.

Anyway: I wish you all a good pre-christmas week, if you have christmas. Or a happy time preparing Hanuka or other religious or other feasts, I do not even have an inkling about, but would be interested in. So If you'd like to tell about those: my eyes are open to read them.
The open eyes are a nice change, because I seem to be in hibernation-mode right now. By the way, I do prefer the german word for it, because it says, what it is: Winterschlaf = wintersleeping.

In that vein: good night!!