Arabian Little Red Riding Hood with a red hijab
A Japanese Snow White with her coveted pale skin and shiny black hair
Mexican Cinderella with colorful Mexican glass blown slippers
Greek Beauty and the Beast where Beast is a minotaur
Culture-bent fairy tales that keep key canonical characteristics
GIVE ME THESE I M M E D I A T E L Y
Afro-Caribbean Rapunzel with 75-ft-long dreads.
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I really liked this idea
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Don’t forget that there are already many different cultural versions of those fairytales around the world.
Cinderella alone has a wide range. There’s the Irish Fair, Brown, and Trembling story where our Cinderella, Trembling, is helped by the local henwife to have three different outfits made based on Trembling’s request along with three different horses to ride on for the three different occasions she comes to Mass and so attracts the eye of the prince of Ireland. Then on the last occasion, she loses her shoe then is discovered, the prince fights over princes of the world for her hand in marriage and wins, then they marry but Brown visits and causes Trembling to fall into the sea and tries to pretend that she’s Trembling, but the prince doesn’t fall for it. Meanwhile, Trembling was swallowed by a whale and cast two times out where she told a farmhand to tell her husband what he needs to do to free her from the whale, though he only made it to the prince the second time. Then the prince comes down to the shore for Trembling’s third time on shore and shots the whale with a silver bullet in it’s one vulnerable spot. The two are then happily together again and they allow their daughter to grow up with and marry the farmhand that told the prince the news.
Then there’s also the Egyptian Cinderella story where the Cinderella was a Greek slave girl that her master delighted enough in to give her new shoes, much to the jealousy of the other women of the house. She wasn’t allowed to the banquet happening but a hawk came by that she danced for. The hawk then took one of her shoes and dropped it on the lap of the Pharoah, who took it as a sign from Horus of who his wife should be. Then he hunts through the land until he finds her and when people protest that she’s not Egyptian, the Pharoah relates that her golden hair reflects the sun and ripples like the waves of the Nile and other poetic lines about how her unEgyptian beauty reflecrs much of what makes Egypt herself beautiful. And so they were married.
Then there’s the Native American Cinderella story where the mighty Strong Wind with the power to turn invisible sought a wife who was truthful and would help him in his spy work much like his sister did. And so he had a test where his sister would await with the prospective woman for Strong Wind to come home then the sister would ask the girls if they could see him and then test him about what he was wearing. Many tried, but all failed. Cinderella was the youngest daughter of a chieftain known for her kindness and beauty. Her elder sisters though were jealous of her and so burnt her face and cut her hair, lying to their father and saying Cinderella had done it to herself, and they forced her to do most of the work around their home. The sisters also tried for Strong Wind’s hand, but lied and failed. Then Cinderella went to try, though ridiculed for seeking to, and dressed up as best she could to see Strong Wind’s sister and wait for his return. Cinderella when asked if she saw him answered truthfully no, and then when asked again was able to see him truly and answer the sister’s questions correctly. The sister then helped heal and undo the burns on her face and helped her hair to grow back and so Cinderella became Strong Wind’s wife. The elder sisters he punished for their cruelty by making them trees that still tremble whenever they feel his approach.
And many more like that.
