Basile's story, titled The Cat Cinderella, Cinderella's father was indeed a widower who remarried, but what modern adaptations don't tell us is that she in fact snaps her step-mother's neck with the lid of a dressing trunk. Sure, her governess told her to, but she's still a cold-blooded killer. Cinderella's conniving governess then marries Cinderella's father, widowed for a second time, and banishes Cinderella to the kitchen.
Basile's Cinderella is indeed granted a wish and attends a grand feast dressed as royalty. She does lose a slipper (though it's patent and fur instead of glass) and she is indeed chased by a dashing King. In Basile's version, the lost slipper fits Cinderella's foot and the murderer gets her happily ever after. In other early versions, such as Scotland's Rashin Coatie, Cinderella's step mother is a little more determined - she cuts off pieces of her daughters' feet so they might fit the lost slipper. In the Grimm Brothers' 18th century adaptation Aschenputtel, the sisters mutilate their own feet and songbirds peck out their eyes.
The 1950 Disney film was in fact based on French storyteller, Charles Perrault's, 1697 adaptation. Perrault is a storyteller to the French court, he removed the... Exotic elements, and added many magical elements, like the fairy godmother and the pumpkin coach.
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