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Scorned by her two elder sisters, Sinderela is forced to hide in the coal-hole so no one can see her. After she overhears her sisters talking about a Prince, Sinderela finds help in the guise of an old beggar woman who shows her a secret door, inside which are the means to transform her into a lady so grand no one would recognise her. When one of Sinderela’s golden slippers falls from her foot, her life is changed forever, but her elder sister is determined to make sure Sinderela never gets her happy-ever-after with her Prince.
A Cinderella tale with a twist, this Welsh-Romani fairytale was one of many collected by the esteemed linguist John Sampson from the dramatic storyteller, Matthew Wood. Look no further than this English edition to discover more about the fate of Sinderela and her family, as well as that of a Welsh-Romani Cinder Lad in Goggle-Eyes.
[Folklore Type: ATU-510 (Cinderella and Catskin) and ATU-707 (The Bird of Truth)]
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John Sampson (1862-1931) was an Irish linguist, librarian, and scholar. His father, James, was a Cornish mining engineer who died in 1872, leaving little money for him and his family. The eldest child, Sampson left school after his father’s death. With the family now living in Liverpool, he was apprenticed for seven years to Alexander MacGregor, a lithographer and engraver. Sampson continued his education, reading widely, and when MacGregor retired, Sampson briefly set up his own small printing business, aged 22. In 1892, he was accepted as the first full-time librarian at University College, Liverpool, where he remained until 1928.
On a camping trip in 1894, Sampson encountered the musician Edward Wood. The Wood family to which Edward belonged were noted speakers of Welsh-Rómani, a Rómani dialect that was to become Sampson’s major area of study.
Through Edward Wood’s brother-in-law, Lloyd Robert, Sampson found Matthew Wood on Cader Idris in 1896. Wood was a passionate teller of folk-tales, stories which were related to him by his grandmother, Black Ellen, who supposedly knew two hundred such tales. A handsome fellow with long black curls, Wood lived near Corwen and Bala, and played his fiddle in their country inns.
Matthew Wood disappeared a few years later, but Sampson continued to spend his holidays with the Wood family, studying their language, from which stemmed his best-known work, The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales (1926).
From its inception, Sampson was also involved with the Gypsy Lore Society, acting as President in 1915-6. He died in 1931, and his funeral was non-religious with Rómani elements.
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