The Messed Up Origins of Cinderella (REVISITED!) | Fables Explained - Jon Solo

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[@JonSolo]

Hope you enjoyed this episode and our first REAL deep-dive into the history of Cinderella! I found it really interesting how the stories could all unfold in basically the exact same way while still being completely unique from each other. Pretty crazy that this story resonates and is so popular with so many people from around the world. I think it'd be cool to do another episode in the future where I skim over some of the other 700 stories as there were a few I had to leave out of this episode, but that'll probably be somewhere in the near-distant future. Let me know what you think about that and the story itself in a comment down below and don't forget to give the like button a pat on the back!

[@colewebb4643]

hi Jon Solo caption please turn on the caption and let me know and I will come back to watch thank you C😎😎L

[@barbarabaker1457]

Don't suppose I can hope you'll look into Scandinavian tales to find the one that is virtually identical to Frozen unlike snow queen? I'm just so bad at this research and you seem very capable. Great video and no worries about an another upload. The Chinese version of Cinderella is my favorite. Hope your tests come back well.

[@killapicklepiratepanda7373]

I really like the grim version of this story

[@yummi4tunekookie]

Your Chinese is about as good as mine, and my parents & extended family speak it (Mandarin) fluently. Family reunions are an awkward thing for me & my younger bro...

[@Hecatate]

Thanks for putting in the Chinese story, I first heard it on HBOs "Fairy Tales for Every Child".

[@Lady.Marmalade]

Foot binding is now prohibit in China but you can still find old ladies that are called the last generation of foot binding

[@Maggiemoooooo]

Carl Brines you can still find them alive last century... if you can find a woman with her foot binded.. you might find yourself a living fossil

[@KnittingGirl28]

Oooooooooowwwwwwww, that's like half my foot gone. So glad its not being done anymore, sounds pretty silly to me.

[@erynnding6848]

My great grandma still has her foot binded. She is still going stong, she's made it to 100 years old

[@VianneyCreates]

I would imagine it was painful. Does she ever talk about that, or is it just how things were and she's cool with it?

[@erynnding6848]

VianneyCreates I'm not sure, she just said it was the way things were. She just didn't really like talking about it.

[@Litelight]

I respect Jon Solo for correcting himself and admitting he didn't research that much. Instant like

[@growinggreenes8880]

nik nak ya he’s like me with research projects at school

[@ines4982]

Righttt

[@jacqulyynw]

Agreed.

[@hexagondaddy1015]

Honestly rad "Jojo sewa" Instead of Jon solo

[@sandrixhozart7838]

Ahem I love chocolate milk!!!

[@almnd_milk]

*“I’ll give you a bonus story, because I like you more.”* Made me smile. :

[@CuteLih]

Now THIS is the quality I was expecting for a Cinderella messed up origins video!

[@chickendrawsdogs3343]

You're gonna get a kick out of the Vietnamese version. It's quite similar to the Chinese one at the beginning, but it's the mid and ending that got...interesting. In it, the Stepmother asked Cinderella (Tấm, but I'm just gonna type Cinderella because it's a pain to keep switching between English and TELEX) got married to the King pretty early on thanks to the shoe thing, but it wasn't over. On Cinderella's father's death anniversary, she was told by Stepmother to climb the areca tree for some fruits as ceremonial offering. Stepmother then chopped down the tree, Cinderella fell and died. Cinderella's spirit got reincarnated into an oriole, then a wooden loom - which Stepsister ate and burned, respectively, after having taken Cinderella's place as the King's wife. Stepsister dumped the ash on the side of the road, which grew into a tree that bore a single yellow (in the persimmon family), which fell into the lap of a kindly old lady. Cinderella got reborn and was raised by the old lady like her own daughter. One day, the King visited the market and stopped by the old lady's tea shop. He recognized the betel leave wrapped by Cinderella, and so they were reunited. Once returned to the palace, Cinderella surprised Stepsister by looking much more youthful (and...alive, I guess). Stepsister asked how Cinderella looked even better than before, and Cinderella told her it was by bathing in boiling water. Naturally as all fairytales go, Stepsister went for it and cooked herself. Cinderella then had the corpse salted and made into fermented paste, which she sent to Stepmother as a gift. Stepmother eventually found Stepsister's head at the bottom - and died of a heart attack. Cinderella lived happily ever after. Aren't fairytales wonderful?

[@ヴァイオレット-o3k]

thank you. I appreciate this

[@PimpDeddi]

Honestly…. Love this version.. thank you 😂

[@justinabakugou5813]

That's honestly awesome and terrifying at the same time😊😊😊😊

[@VianneyCreates]

"A whole inch bigger than my foot." LOL!!!

[@reren02]

thank you for not butchering the name and apologizing for it at the end

[@feralfernweh6091]

LavenderTowne talked about this in her redesigning Cinderella video, she talked about an Egyptian story and one where there was cow bones

[@misterrioter3575]

the cow bones one is albanian!

[@barbarahouk1983]

You tickle my fancy. I am glad I found your channel. I like good stories.

[@colleenhahn7205]

"A whole inch bigger than my foot." Lmbo

[@sarahhales1505]

Hi Jon, Just though I’d let you know that the reason English audiences thought that the slipper was glass was because the French words for glass and fur are very similar, and the translators were confused. They thought that the author couldn’t have meant glass, so they put fur.

[@LowLyingFog]

Exactly! "vair" means squirrel fur and was the original word, and "verre" means glass. They are pronounced the same, so...

[@Midrac61]

Please note that the Perault original does NOT talk about 'verre' shoes which in Perault's time was impossible to make. He wrote about 'vair' which is the very expensive fur of a type of red squirrel. It's that exclusive that it has, together with hermin, it's own design in heraldry. So two totally different things but same pronounciation.

[@terrymbridges]

Great video, I love that you have the Goodfellas painting behind you. “One dog’s going east, the other one’s going west, so what?”

[@apriljaxon7623]

My favorite Cinderella story is part of a computer game series called Dark Parables. I recommend getting the collecters' edition for the bonus game.

[@LisaLDahlgren]

Okay, I was brought here because I saw something about Mulan. A competing channel got slammed for basically for sounding like you. I came here and saw the Cinderella revisited and was impressed. Accountability Bold and moreover, I love that you had no issues with correcting yourself! I have hit subscribe. I do not subscribe to many people. Thanks for the great historical information!

[@tinitinyty6380]

“A whole inch bigger than my foot” Boooooooooooy

[@zappawench6048]

The explanation for why the slipper was glass actually makes sense!

[@kentgrinton5093]

Cinderella was always one of my favourites didn’t know there were so many other different stories

[@hollisekins7230]

A three inch bound foot was called a golden lotus which is probably why the slipper was “gold”

[@blizzi8428]

In the german version of cinderella my grandmother told me, her mom and stepsisters have their eyes plucked by crows in the end. Also the mother cuts her daughters foots to make them fit into the shoe, but the prince never ends up falling for it because a bird tells him about the scam.

[@ashtonconrad9938]

Okay so you defended the slipper falling off and no one having the same shoe size, but explain why that one shoe was the only thing that didn’t turn back after midnight?

[@yvsfrbs_19]

Honestly, I would love to see him cover the other versions of the Cinderella story had to leave out of this episode as episodes on his Featured Folklore series, even though he already covered one version on the first episode of Featured Folklore, which is Little Saddleslut.

[@yimingxu7446]

Born and raised in China, I can't believe that I watched the Disney movie Cinderella since I was 7 or 8 but never knew about the story of Ye xian. Thanks for the information! It's a great video! ♥

[@carberyroe]

I liked your French Jon. I certainly would struggle to prononce that! ... I found you other lockdown and your videos gave deffiently been a highlight! :o) Thank you so much! x

[@yvesforbesfloresiii461]

I wish he can revisit Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel and The Frog Prince in some future episodes of Messed Up Origins, especially Fables Explained

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

I read of a similar English Folk tale that's like Cinderella called "Mossycoat". The story's protagonist is a girl name Mossycoat (which didn't make sense until her magical mother gives her a mossy coat which have the power to take her where ever she wishes) who received the dresses and slippers from a tailor who was previously courting her. Mossycoat was sent to a nobleman's castle where she worked in the kitchen with three cooks who would repeatedly beat her head with a wooden spoon. When the Lord holds a ball for his son, Mossycoat uses her inherited magic to put the cooks to sleep while she attended the ball for 2 nights (cause she only had 2 dresses) and it was the second night she lost the slipper. Luckily, Mossycoat have the TINIEST feet in the kingdom (literally, her feet are only 12" long) so only she fit the slippers. I also heard of a Native American version of Cinderella which Cinderella was only chosen because she was the only one who can see the chief (who's apparently invisible).

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

Interesting enough, I do think the whole idea of Mossycoat's tiny feet came from the Chinese version even though it came from Joseph Jacobs' Book (yes, the same one with the Jack story)

[@racoonmama]

this was really informitive! i really like it!

[@elyse7509]

I read the story where the mother gets forced to wear steel or glass shoes that were burning on a fire and forced to dance. Idk if maybe i'm mixing it with another story

[@molly-zx9cr]

I’m a big fan of the Furball version of the story which was also one of the base stories that inspired Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” (the one Shakespeare probably heard replaced fur with rushes but otherwise it’s pretty much the same)

[@lotelani._.00]

Is that Gunther and Ice King in the background?! 😍😁 nice 👍 also I like the stories, I find it interesting to learn about the history to fairy tales :)

[@SkarlettRage]

Dear Jon Solo.. Do you think you could make some videos about the origins of Holidays?

[@teiganobrien1543]

There’s another story like cinderella it’s called sapsorrow it’s from this early German folk tale I heard about it from a show that my cousin introduced me to a few years ago called The Storyteller

[@dogukan7406]

The Turkish name for the story is "kül kedisi" which means "ash cat". Hearing "hearth cat" made me make more sense of this

[@virustheglitch9836]

Kinda surprised he didn’t also mention the Rough Faced Girl, which is the Native American version of the Cinderella story

[@nancyjohnson7147]

My favorite versions are the one from the book 'bound' its a version of the Chinese version. And of course ella enchanted.

[@leonidas0242]

Brenda Song is looking good in the thumbnail

[@enerioffutt1881]

I learned some time ago (don't remember how) that Cinderella's name was actually Ella, thus she was called CinderElla.

[@mamakat7176]

Cinderella's name is actually Ella, the stepsisters and Stepmother called her Cinderella because they made fun of her for getting ash and soot on her face cleaning the fireplace and banking the cinders at night and in the end of the story she became Princess Ella.

[@angiejones3714]

Ok jon solo its American tall tales. That the cartoons series i think you should check out for fables explained vids. Anxiously hoping to see some of them soon.

[@pequodexpress]

I have read versions where her real name is Ella.

[@ormhp8575]

The Chinese story sound skids like a Thai story ปลาบู่ทอง (pla-boo-toung). It’s been like at least 5 years since I last read it, so I’m not sure But the beginning was very similar. It was about a girl with 2 paternal half sisters who bullied her. I think her dead mother reincarnation into a golden fish(it was some other type of fish, not a gold fish, I’m too lazy too look it up.) she would talk too the mom fish everyday. One day, the sister heard her talking to the fish, she secretly captured the fish and cooked it for dinner that night, telling the whole family that it was a golden fish. The main girl was sad and buried the bones, then it later grew in to a tree with golden leaves. The sis found out again the she is talking to the tree mom, and destroyed the tree. I don’t remember what happened after that. But in the end she married a prince and made her half sisters and their mom become nuns for the rest of their life and she lived happily happily ever after.

[@TeethoftheMoon]

*"H E Y C R Y I N G G I R L, W H A T ' S W R O N G?"*

[@sumimelora9323]

Hahaha that's my fav part

[@loneronin6813]

Honestly, I'm still laughing about that one XD

[@fishramen5390]

Thats pretty creepy if it wasnt the fairy godmother 😂😂

[@sumimelora9323]

@@fishramen5390 Yep, godmother the best at making an entrance

[@fayefaye2718]

I need to save just that clip for next time I'm sad

[@seli3631]

Ok but like...can we give cinderella some praise cuz the girl literally out ran the freaking prince while wearing slippery glass heels Like thats some skill right there I can't even walk properly with heels and she ran ...like whaaaat

[@native_beauty1340]

Selisia Muslia out ran not outrunned lol

[@seli3631]

@@native_beauty1340 oops Imma fix it English its not my first language soooooo

[@pudchaa]

Selisia Muslia lol well your english is better than some people whose first language it actually _is,_ so I wouldn’t worry about it too much 😉

[@pudchaa]

Salina Lawson (“outran” is actually one word btw)

[@savannabanana6653]

Thats too funny. And so true here too!

[@ngandu9457]

In Vietnam we also have a version of Cinderella call Tấm Cám. There’s a lot of killing and reincarnated into different things and lastly cannibalism.

[@speedymark8517]

F2f

[@speedymark8517]

Love

[@speedymark8517]

💘

[@speedymark8517]

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[@peilingpey697]

that's my favourite version, it deserves more coverage

[@msadelaide5497]

Jon being able to admit his mistakes and fix them is why I appreciate him and his content so much ☺️❤️

[@kellygoodman6167]

Yep

[@meganteresa6204]

Again love ur picture frm goodfellas, Joe Pesci's mom made the picture of the two dogs looking opposite ways on the boat with the old man with the long white beard. I want one so bad!

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

On his own volition, even.

[@BestFriendsWhoLiveTogether]

More than I could do

[@indigovae3579]

i love that jon can make jokes while talking in a serious tone. it makes it 10x funnier in my opinion!😂😂😂

[@onghaihoang335]

"Don't mind me, I am just making sauce out of my stepsister's dead body then give it to her mom." The vietnamese's version of Cinderella.

[@psychosislove]

Now that is the ultimate revenge right there.

[@endergirl1421]

WHAT- đông hải Hoàng

[@michitheenstarrie]

Okay I don’t remember that part of the story, but the story was pretty gruesome

[@samyebeid4534]

Yummy sos

[@steffenkrause2448]

Damn. I don't know if I should respect her or think she is crazy

[@whynot7549]

So you actually acknowledge you made a mistake and feel bad about it? You for real?? RESPECT.

[@lauzthorbzarella4655]

Much respect. Don't get many people taking responsibility for their own actions. I am one of them (that holds my hands up when I'm wrong) and tbh, it's rewarding because people will trust and rely on you. From my experience anyway. Credit to the young chap. Fair play 👌👍

[@hunternorth8817]

"If you need a garbage can, I got one right here." Jon, you're so polite.

[@mireillelebeau2513]

And your french accent is not that bad!

[@mothersandfuckersofthejury5416]

he mispronounced 3/4 of the letters but it was kinda cute

[@hellonadilahere9302]

You're so entertaining 🤣 major respect for admitting mistakes, major respect! By the way.. a SOLO CUP garbage can!?!?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AshantiCaltini]

@Nadila Right??? That was amazing. The dead pan moments are to die for

[@PixieElixir]

😂 what’s up with men finding wives based on lost footwear across time and dimensions?

[@nailsarelife]

Foot fetishes know no bounds?

[@tehillahpitas1931]

lol ikr😂😂😂

[@clumsy_miss7550]

Foot fetish I guess 🤷

[@dianewood2430]

Nails Are Life Except bound feet 🦶🏼

[@ChupeTTe]

@@nailsarelife Expect in ancient china

[@Prisoner4011]

I’m a Chinese citizen, and I can assure you foot-binding is no longer a thing, like, for a verrrrrrry loooong time. It’s considered a 陋习，which basically means something that’s really bad or wrong, like sexism. Do people here still think smaller feet prettier for a woman? Not particularly, most Chinese women have similar sized feet anyway.

[@MagicalKid]

Juat to add on, 陋习 means a tradition/custom that is considered bad but is hard to get rid of at a particular time because of it being widespread and also people's resistance towards foreign criticisms. Foot binding is no longer practiced in China.

[@endlesshalcyon]

My great-great grandmother had lily feet and my grandmother told me that it was excruciating for her grandmother to walk or even stand.

[@davidjacobs8558]

Koreans never had foot binding tradition, even though Korea was right next door to China, and culturally heavily influenced. Probably because Korea was a poor country, and women HAD to work in the field along side their husbands.

[@cy_b0t466]

and face ( no offence.)

[@wonhoscake1214]

CY_B0T so does white people. No joke

[@christiannedebiasi381]

Best of luck on your surgery. Love the content, as always. 💜

[@j-hopessprite3453]

I’m getting surgery next week too AND IM SOOO NERVOUS 😬!

[@Muslimah1987]

@@j-hopessprite3453 Good luck and best wishes to you too!

[@hlengiwezungu8152]

@@j-hopessprite3453 Wish u all the best

[@jkmakeupmaster1438]

-_-Hello I’m a fan but u can call me Wendy i had surgery last week

[@bookbook9495]

There is an Egyptian and Indian version, too. I kinda... grew up with half a dozen different versions of Cinderella stories.

[@Sarah-lr6vp]

What's their names?

[@kal-muzel875]

There is also a Bahraini story of it (either Saudi or Bahraini)

[@zappawench6048]

Hello fellow Debby! The Egyptian and Indian versions sound very interesting, would you care to elaborate?

[@bookbook9495]

Sarah, Idk. I got the kid’s versions that just stated “[insert nation/nationality] Cinderella”.

[@bookbook9495]

Debbie Powell, Well in the Egyptian one, she was a blonde green eyed slave girl who lost a sandal washing clothes by the river thanks to an eagle named Ra. The sandal falls into the pharaoh’s lap, and he takes it as a sign from Ra that he needs to marry whoever the sandal belonged to. When he finds her and asks for her hand in marriage, the servant girls who picked on the girl tell him that she isn’t even Egyptian. He goes on a monologue about how she embodies Egypt because her eyes are blue as the Nile, her hair the color of its sands, etc etc, you get the point. She marries the guy and leaves everyone else behind.

[@alliestanfield-paramore7250]

"I heard that's how they were going to kill off the Fairy Godmother in the film too but Walt was being a pansy about it" had me dying 😂😂😂😂😂

[@yamilemorales2936]

The trash can looks like a solo cup😂😂 I love it

[@AsdeyMiller]

Well hs user name /is/ John Solo

[@loneronin6813]

@@AsdeyMillerThat's why I love it, to be honest. It keeps up the theme :D

[@theworldoverheavan560]

whats a SOLO CUP

[@AsdeyMiller]

@@theworldoverheavan560 those red cups you always see in movies/ tv shows when there's a party

[@theworldoverheavan560]

@@AsdeyMiller oh thank you

[@rockellenoel5858]

I'll watch twice because it's you. Hope surgery goes well😁😁.

[@guacamoleontoast4591]

Rockelle Noel his videos are so good, and I hope his surgery goes well! Well wishes💞

[@rockellenoel5858]

@@guacamoleontoast4591 I agree. Ever since I found him I watched every single video. Great content.

[@thefrenchsocialite4062]

@@rockellenoel5858 yeah he's the GOAT! 🐐

[@teacupsnhotcoco]

Hope you’ll be okay and be healthier after the surgery, Jon 😊 Keep up your awesome work! 👍👋 We all love you brother! 💕💖

[@kokonoisgf6381]

Ur pfp just gave me life..

[@teacupsnhotcoco]

Denki Kaminari- Oh? I’m glad it made you happy 😅😊

[@manager-nim2623]

"a whole inch bigger than my foot" I love this dude, sense of humor *over 9000* I might end up crushing on him

[@xxxshad0wxwolfxxxxxx913]

Omg Jin ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@battle_beanz]

manager-nim I WAS WAITING UNTIL SOMEONE NOTICED

[@harshdip122]

Diamond Baskerville same

[@yoips4059]

God Bless

[@jjongs-bear]

Well considering your sense of humor....yes he is hilarious I mean I love his sarcasm

[@megmiao3051]

Wow, I’m a Chinese yet I haven’t heard of that Chinese Cinderella story before! Thank you! Just one small detail: Ye Xian’s family was not really “cave people.” Her father was a 洞主, and her tribesmen were called 洞人, which literally translated to “cave master” and “cave people.” But that was a name called by the dominant Han people of the southern ethic minorities, just like how the word “barbarian” was used in English.

[@jaceyneubauer6522]

Its interesting I read it in middle school

[@nyxdollipop14]

"a whole inch bigger than my foot" 🙄😭😂😂😂 that sent me

[@xsariax]

I know, I wasn't expecting that and it made me lol for real

[@mkaylor121]

Janya O right!! Love his humor lol

[@RandomChat15]

@@xsariax lol i thought to myself *gasp* he has the perfect sized foot lol 🤣

[@therealSuperG]

"Hey crying girl what's wrong?" Lmao!!! That look tho coming slowly across the screen.... I was wheezing!!! 😂😂😂😂 My stomach hurts. Oh GOD. Hilarious!!

[@Iridys]

Real people correct their mistakes. You’re as real as they get, Jon. Thanks for the video and I hope you have a successful surgery. P.S. - You should totally cover the other 700- ish stories 👍

[@MoonOffSpringC]

I think the fur to glass shoe thing was just a misunderstanding, because in Perault's story he uses the old word "vair" (in French nobody uses that word anymore) which is some type of squirrel fur I think (I just know it's fur), and "vair" sounds exactly like "verre" which means glass

[@angelofdudes]

I thought it was because he got it from native americans and they wore moccasins but of course the native americans the french interacted with used fur pelts to trade with the french, thus he thought of something expensive and came up with fur pelts

[@juliettebullot8202]

"Vair" is a specific sort of squirel fur. Cinderella is an oral tale, it was told many time before being recorded on paper. It's impossible to know if they meant glass or fur in the beginning. The oldest versions don't even mention what the shoes is made of.

[@ginniem9779]

In Korea, we have 콩쥐와 팥쥐 (Kong Jwi and Pat Gwi) which is very similar to Cinderella. In the story, Kong Gwi is made to do housework and agricultural work by her stepmother. She also loses a shoe when she secretly goes out. It is her stepsister whose name is Pat Jwi. Vietnam's version of Cinderella, called Tam and Cam, is like a mixture of Chinese and Korean versions. In Tam and Cam, Tam also befriends a fish and is made to do agricultural work. I think the agricultural chores reflect how Korea and Vietnam were agricultural societies.

[@soleclaw6521]

I'd think that the glass slippers would shatter from running in them. Painful, I'd imagine.

[@kariannakiad112]

Heather Comeaux oOf and then once they shatter you’re just stepping in pile of glass🤧

[@herolumierelumanite1608]

That how you stop the girl from running too far. Too bad it didn't work!!

[@jeieldavid6347]

Maybe it's like made up of hard compressed glass

[@anonymousfellow8879]

The problem with glass slippers is...either it shatters under your weight or from the general wear shoes do, or it’s too heavy to even use (think like a paperweight, except it’s on your foot and completely inflexible.) Even if she didn’t have glass shards in her feet, she’d have severe muscle and tendon strains

[@anonymousfellow8879]

Layla W Lol! Sounds legit. And it ain’t glass, it’s mithril!!! 🤣

[@Blackblood254]

Four stories in one video?!!! What did we do to deserve this?? THANK YOU!

[@SpoonieCreates]

A content creator actually taking responsibility for a mistake? I’m not used to this. Be careful or you’ll spoil me. In all seriousness tho, great vid

[@baileysubliminals7192]

Spoonie_the_Rogue Jojo Siwa does that too

[@juliettebullot8202]

Actually in most of the older versions what the shoes is made of is never said. The controversy about what the slipper is made of come from the fact that both "verre" (glass) and "vair" (squirrel fur) are pronouced the same way in french. Since it was an oral tale, it's impossible to know what it was made of. But Fur shoes existed and glass shoes don't. Hence why people disagree, both make sense.

[@strawberryskygirl44]

to answer your question about Chinese foot binding: no, the practice was fortunately outlawed by the 1920s

[@JonSolo]

I knew that, but wasn't sure if the culture still found small feet beautiful

[@emilywang950]

Jon Solo both yes and no. it’s not a prevalent beauty standard anymore (for example in comparison to having fair skin and double eyelids). however, based on personal experience, some older people (40+) will still say things like “wow your feet are so small, how dainty”.

[@yoliev.217]

In 1999, the last shoe factory making lotus shoes, the Zhiqiang Shoe Factory in Harbin, closed.

[@prongs4137]

I read about it for the first time in the story of the Bao Qin in the novel that spans three generations. The author's grandma, when she was young, was put through bound feet n married off to a 48 year old general after she proved the smartest among women n he proved the smartest among men in a competition at an occasion deliberately organised by her 30 year old father to get the general to fall for his daughter since he was a very advantageous match n seemed like a handsome good guy. And they had a daughter whom they named Bao Qin. I hope I remember it right, I don't remember the name of the novel. The grandma's (much younger)sister's feet weren't bound because it had gone out of practice by then. Her grandma was one of the last few women put through it. There's also a scene about her losing balance(because of bound feet) while getting up after prayer n her mom deliberately keeping her attending maid occupied so that the General(I think his name was Zao?) had to come to the rescue.

[@kathrynnowack9601]

@@prongs4137 Have you read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan? It's fiction, but I think you'd enjoy it

[@okami-shaman9548]

Well done for admitting you made some mistakes, and owning up to it.

[@Queen_Nyxie]

Anyone else legit loving the fact that Jon's trash can looks like a Solo cup?

[@millerblaylock]

When your servant sandal is so aesthetic the king wants to marry you for it

[@lizw6952]

“Four inches. That’s like, this big. That’s like, a whole inch bigger than my-“ Me: oh my go- “foot”

[@dakshayini8207]

you need holy water

[@bopperette7260]

@@dakshayini8207 She's not the only one 🥵😂

[@dakshayini8207]

@@bopperette7260 why are there so many thirsty people on the Internet

[@bopperette7260]

@@dakshayini8207 Depends on how you define thirsty. There's nothing wrong in finding someone attractive and saying so. As long as you're not tryna jump their bones. I don't see the problem.

[@dakshayini8207]

@@bopperette7260 yeah, I agree

[@ViktorErikFade]

Four inches for a foot that's .....this big Me:oh yeah Jon: a whole inch different than mine Me: oh intere- wait a second lol

[@reyaseecharan7693]

*hey crying girl what's wrong?!* 😂

[@temi9163]

Hi from England love the series we need MORE

[@drmarythefae3714]

honestly soo much respect for admitting your mistake last time! love ur videos can't wait for more

[@frubeish7920]

Jon, you're actually hilarious! Hope the surgery goes well.

[@nocturnalanimals5884]

I actually wheezed when you said “Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre “ but then with your accent. 😂

[@stienengelaar3857]

Ikr 😂😂

[@leahb6179]

I think you should talk about African story's next like "Oshun "

[@renamon5658]

Please do sleeping beauty, i believe she has 3 messed up origins

[@renamon5658]

@@LucyAdroit ..... Wait he already did sleeping beauty?????

[@SailorWenus]

11:38 Jon: [4 in.] ...a whole inch bigger than my- Me: don’t say it, don’t say it... Jon: -foot. Me: *wipes sweat *

[@kenhollis6197]

I'm betting Jon has a big slab of cock on him.

[@SailorWenus]

Ken Hollis as appalled I am by your comment, I concur

[@nevernorest8315]

Someone's mind was in the gutter 😳😌

[@feralfernweh6091]

"...You get an extra story cuz I like you more" I- ok-

[@abbeyjanegreen703]

In Roald Dahls' version the Prince cuts off the step sister's heads. Cinderella is disgusted and marries the baker instead

[@tiffanystewart9265]

He did Cinderella

[@-EvaRose.]

Thanks so much for taking the time to gather all this info! Super interesting! Also, a huge thank you for adding the art work as you always do, it really helps with visualizing the story (with the time periods) There are some really beautiful works in this video. Sending positive vibes for that surgery :)

[@MontanaGMama]

I liked the move "EverAfter" with Drew Barrymore

[@rivermistfae]

such a *delightful* guilty pleasure... also, Anjelica Huston portrayed a wickedly brilliant evil Stepmother 😍

[@spoonobleach4608]

“That’s like.. that big, a whole inch bigger than my foot” i hope someone else find this funny and gets the joke 😭😂😂

[@florian8599]

Grimm Version: Wussies! The fairy godmom is actually the mom on whose tomb the magical tree was planted, that then provided Aschenputtel with her ballgown, shoes and equipment. Doves and pigeons helped her sort out the messes her sadistic stepmother and stepsisters made on purpose. She flees three times, once even hiding in the pigeon/dove nest. The sisters amputate their toes and heels to get into the shoes but the doves and pigeons go like: "Blood in the shoes! Blood in the shoes! The right one is still sitting home!" Then Aschenputtel gets into her shoes. She and the prince marry. And the evil steps get their just desserts in a later version by having their eyes picked out by the pigeons. THIS! Is messed up!

[@bearo8]

Well the actual messed up part is that German children know this story. It was read to me as a child (with the eye picking part). That was in the nineties. The same with all the other Grimm stories.

[@ashnoodless]

I hope your surgery goes well!! I really like this episode because I read the Chinese and Egyptian versions of this book in school, so it's cool to have that knowledge in my head along with the new info provided by your video :3

[@carterlove7293]

Anyone gonna mention that his trash can is a Solo cup

[@bonnitacazares7379]

I heard that the "first version" was the one where the sisters cute their toes off. I wander where that one fits in?

[@adrianawood2365]

Think that was the brother’s grimm version

[@ightimamoveovertoadifferen8116]

Bonnita Cazares that’s the brother Grimm’s version

[@Jeaienox]

Bonnita Cazares it’s not actually the toes it’s actually the back of the foot idk how to call it but yeah I grew up with that version and because it’s really messed up we can tell that it’s the brother Grimm version

[@feyrieflight9481]

@@Jeaienox I believe one step sister had the toe cut off, the other had the heel (back of the foot).

[@KayElayempea]

@@feyrieflight9481 That's the way my grandma told it.

[@squeakycalene2810]

"You get an extra story, because I like you more." Dead 😂

[@jagardina]

"A whole inch bigger than my foot" Lol, great to see you back. Hope you're medical issue are resolved. Thanks for this video.

[@Eladuende]

Where did you find the information about Perrault's reasoning for using glass slippers? As a French person, I often heard the (debunked) idea that actually the shoes were not glass (verre) but made from squirrel fur (vair); these two words are homonyms in French, and seeing that squirrel fur was an actual material for slippers, unlike glass, the (incorrect) thought came about that Perrault had written the wrong word. However I've never heard about his thought process, so I'm really curious to find out more. Though I'm actually kind of sad that you didn't bring up the argument of whether Perrault's Cendrillon had glass or squirrel-fur shoes ^^. It's really interesting (despite being pretty much completely baseless) and I feel like it's the type of thing you enjoy. Also, fun fact: vers (verse), vert (green), and ver (worm), are all homonyms of verre (glass), so now have fun imagining Cinderella with green, poetic shoes made of worms 😇

[@jenniferpearce1052]

I didn't think it was so much about homonyms and Perrault making a choice, but about flexibility of spelling at the time.

[@candiigurl7893]

I saw the alert for this video and thought "wait, didn't he do this already?" And I was right. But I'm glad he did. He went more into depth with this story and I finished the video having learned more about Cinderella's origins. Nice job dude 👌

[@keshiaanders6452]

Cinderella's real name is obviously "Ella". Coincidentally, "Ella" means "fairy," so in some stories they imply that Cinderella is half fairy, which explains why she has a fairy godmother.

[@christinaperreault43]

No disrespect intended but ive heard you say it wrong so many times now since i love the series 😂 your pronouncing perrault wrong. Its pronouced charles (pear-oh) no l or t sound. I get this all the time obviously.

[@sabrinatarin5005]

👏🏼👏🏼wonderful attempt at French pronunciation!