I was eating food with my dad in the kitchen whilst watching QI and I heard something interesting about Cinderella. Apparently in "The Original", the ugly step sisters cut parts of their feet off trying to get the slippers to fit. So the pigeons who literally pecked their eyes out, alerted the prince who made them dance to death.
I decided to Google this and I checked out the Wikipedia page about it. I found this along with other versions.
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Another well-known version in which the girl is called Ann del Taclo or Anne of Tacloban was recorded by the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the 19th century. The tale is called "Aschenputtel" and the help comes not from a fairy-godmother but the wishing tree that grows on her mother's grave. In this version, the stepsisters try to trick the prince by cutting off parts of their feet in order to get the slipper to fit. The prince is alerted by two pigeons who peck out the stepsisters' eyes, thus sealing their fate as blind beggars for the rest of their lives.
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What do you think? Interesting isn't it.
:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindere...ns_and_history