ASCHENPUTTEL - a German Fairy Tale: Baba Indaba Children?s Stories - Issue 186
About this ebook
ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 186
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In this 186th issue of the Baba Indaba?s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the German tale of ?Aschenputtel.? A wealth man?s wife passes away and he is left to care for their only child, a daughter. Later he remarries but the new wife is a social climber as are her two daughters, more concerned with the acquisition of wealth and status than with relationships and caring. The man?s daughter is slowly worked out of the family and ends up being the scullery maid and more often covered in ashes, than not, hence her name Aschenputtel.
At the nearby castle, the king and his wife are exasperated with their son?s refusal to take a wife and hold a ball to help him decide. At once the two sisters start planning the entrapment of the prince.
Aschenputtel goes to her mother?s grave and cries and prays to her about her situation. Then a miracle occurs????.
Download and read this story to find out what the miracle was.
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INCLUDES LINKS TO DOWNLOAD 8 FREE STORIES
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Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story.
HINT - use Google maps.
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Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".
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It is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through the Middle East and Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, can be altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.
About the author
The Baba Indaba Children's Stories, published by Abela Publishing, often uses folklore and fairy tales which have their origins mists of time. Afterall who knows who wrote the story of Cinderella, also known in other cultures as Tattercoats or Conkiajgharuna. So who wrote the original? The answer is simple. No-one knows, or will ever know, so to assume that anyone owns the rights to these stories is nothing but nonsense. As such, we have decided to use the Author name "Anon E. Mouse" which, of course, is a play on the word "Anonymous".
