![]() If nothing else, perhaps it has a future in show business. Our heroine is discovered by a prince, who finds the talking gourd and takes it home. In this version of the story, the heroine is born inside a gourd and accidentally abandoned in the forest - understandable, given that her mother has just brought forth a squash from within her person, and the last thought she's entertaining is probably, "Hey, I'll take that with me." This is the opening to the description of an Italian variant of the Cinderella folk tale - or, really, a relative of one of its relatives - taken from a book called Cinderella three hundred and forty-five variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap o'Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with a discussion of mediaeval analogues, and notes, written by Marian Roalfe Cox and published in 1893. Cinderella and her fairy godmother in the 1950 Disney cartoon. ![]()
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