<Dd> A plague infests a village, and a wealthy gentleman's wife lies on her deathbed . She calls for her only daughter, and tells her to remain good and kind, as God would protect her . She then dies and is buried . The child visits her mother's grave every day to grieve and a year goes by . The gentleman marries another woman with two older daughters from a previous marriage . They have beautiful faces and fair skin, but their hearts are cruel and wicked . The stepsisters steal the girl's fine clothes and jewels and force her to wear rags . They banish her into the kitchen, and give her the nickname "Aschenputtel" ("Ashfool"). She is forced to do all kinds of hard work from dawn to dusk for the sisters . The cruel sisters do nothing but mock her and make her chores harder by creating messes . However, despite all of it, the girl remains good and kind, and will always go to her mother's grave to cry and pray to God that she will see her circumstances improve . </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> One day the gentleman visits a fair, promising his stepdaughters gifts of luxury . The eldest asks for beautiful dresses, while the younger for pearls and diamonds . His own daughter merely begs for the first twig to knock his hat off on the way . The gentleman goes on his way, and acquires presents for his stepdaughters . While passing a forest he gets a hazel twig, and gives it to his daughter . She plants the twig over her mother's grave, waters it with her tears and over the years, it grows into a glowing hazel tree . The girl prays under it three times a day, and a white bird always comes to her as she prays . She tells her wishes to the bird, and every time the bird throws down to her what she has wished for . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> One day the gentleman visits a fair, promising his stepdaughters gifts of luxury . The eldest asks for beautiful dresses, while the younger for pearls and diamonds . His own daughter merely begs for the first twig to knock his hat off on the way . The gentleman goes on his way, and acquires presents for his stepdaughters . While passing a forest he gets a hazel twig, and gives it to his daughter . She plants the twig over her mother's grave, waters it with her tears and over the years, it grows into a glowing hazel tree . The girl prays under it three times a day, and a white bird always comes to her as she prays . She tells her wishes to the bird, and every time the bird throws down to her what she has wished for . </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> The king decides to ordain a festival that will last for three days and invites all the beautiful maidens in the land to attend so that the prince can select one of them for his bride . The two sisters are also invited, but when Aschenputtel begs them to allow her to go with them into the celebration, the stepmother refuses because she has no decent dress nor shoes to wear . When the girl insists, the woman throws a dish of lentils into the ashes for her to pick up, guaranteeing her permission to attend the festival, if she can clean up the lentils in two hours . When the girl accomplished the task in less than an hour with the help of a flock of white doves that came when she sang a certain chant, the stepmother only redoubles the task and throws down even a greater quantity of lentils . When Aschenputtel is able to accomplish it in a greater speed, not wanting to spoil her daughters' chances, the stepmother hastens away with her husband and daughters to the celebration and leaves the crying stepdaughter behind . </Dd> </Dl>

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