Origins Quiz — Monday, October 12, 2026

What heroine's name, in Charles Perrault's 1697 telling, means 'little ash girl', for the hearth she sleeps beside? Perrault wrote her slipper as glass three separate times. The claim that he meant squirrel fur, and that a copyist misheard, was dreamed up by Balzac and other 19th-century writers.

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