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«Cinderella» in Spanish

La Cenicienta

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✒ Author
📖 Pages10
⏰ Reading time 30 minutes
💡 Originally published1812
🌏 Original language German
📌 Type Fairy tale
📌 Genres Children's literature, Adventure, Parable

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La Cenicienta: read the book with parallel translation into English

Érase una mujer, casada con un hombre muy rico, que enfermó, y, presintiendo su próximo fin, llamó a su única hijita y le dijo: "Hija mía, sigue siendo siempre buena y piadosa, y el buen Dios no te abandonará. Yo velaré por ti desde el cielo, y me tendrás siempre a tu lado." Y, cerrando los ojos, murió. La muchachita iba todos los días a la tumba de su madre a llorar, y siguió siendo buena y piadosa. Al llegar el invierno, la nieve cubrió de un blanco manto la sepultura, y cuando el sol de primavera la hubo derretido, el padre de la niña contrajo nuevo matrimonio.
There was once a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she called to her only daughter to come near her bed, and said, "Dear child, be pious and good, and God will always take care of you, and I will look down upon you from heaven, and will be with you." And then she closed her eyes and expired. The maiden went every day to her mother's grave and wept, and was always pious and good. When the winter came the snow covered the grave with a white covering, and when the sun came in the early spring and melted it away, the man took to himself another wife.
La segunda mujer llevó a casa dos hijas, de rostro bello y blanca tez, pero negras y malvadas de corazón. Vinieron entonces días muy duros para la pobrecita huérfana. "¿Esta estúpida tiene que estar en la sala con nosotras?" decían las recién llegadas. "Si quiere comer pan, que se lo gane. ¡Fuera, a la cocina!" Le quitaron sus hermosos vestidos,le pusieron una blusa vieja y le dieron un par de zuecos para calzado: "¡Mira la orgullosa princesa, qué compuesta!" Y, burlándose de ella, la llevaron a la cocina. Allí tenía que pasar el día entero ocupada en duros trabajos. Se levantaba de madrugada, iba por agua, encendía el fuego, preparaba la comida, lavaba la ropa. Y, por añadidura, sus hermanastras la sometían a todas las mortificaciones imaginables; se burlaban de ella, le esparcían, entre la ceniza, los guisantes y las lentejas, para que tuviera que pasarse horas recogiéndolas. A la noche, rendida como estaba de tanto trabajar, en vez de acostarse en una cama tenía que hacerlo en las cenizas del hogar. Y como por este motivo iba siempre polvorienta y sucia, la llamaban Cenicienta.
The new wife brought two daughters home with her, and they were beautiful and fair in appearance, but at heart were, black and ugly. And then began very evil times for the poor step-daughter. "Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us?" said they; "those who eat food must earn it. Out upon her for a kitchen-maid!" They took away her pretty dresses, and put on her an old grey kirtle, and gave her wooden shoes to wear. "Just look now at the proud princess, how she is decked out!" cried they laughing, and then they sent her into the kitchen. There she was obliged to do heavy work from morning to night, get up early in the morning, draw water, make the fires, cook, and wash. Besides that, the sisters did their utmost to torment her, mocking her, and strewing peas and lentils among the ashes, and setting her to pick them up. In the evenings, when she was quite tired out with her hard day's work, she had no bed to lie on, but was obliged to rest on the hearth among the cinders. And as she always looked dusty and dirty, they named her Cinderella.
Un día en que el padre se disponía a ir a la feria, preguntó a sus dos hijastras qué deseaban que les trajese. "Hermosos vestidos," respondió una de ellas. "Perlas y piedras preciosas," dijo la otra. "¿Y tú, Cenicienta," preguntó, "qué quieres?" - "Padre, corta la primera ramita que toque el sombrero, cuando regreses, y traemela." Compró el hombre para sus hijastras magníficos vestidos, perlas y piedras preciosas; de vuelta, al atravesar un bosquecillo, un brote de avellano le hizo caer el sombrero, y él lo cortó y se lo llevó consigo. Llegado a casa, dio a sus hijastras lo que habían pedido, y a Cenicienta, el brote de avellano. La muchacha le dio las gracias, y se fue con la rama a la tumba de su madre, allí la plantó, regándola con sus lágrimas, y el brote creció, convirtiéndose en un hermoso árbol. Cenicienta iba allí tres veces al día, a llorar y rezar, y siempre encontraba un pajarillo blanco posado en una rama; un pajarillo que, cuando la niña le pedía algo, se lo echaba desde arriba.
It happened one day that the father went to the fair, and he asked his two step-daughters what he should bring back for them. "Fine clothes!" said one. "Pearls and jewels!" said the other. "But what will you have, Cinderella?" said he. "The first twig, father, that strikes against your hat on the way home; that is what I should like you to bring me." So he bought for the two step-daughters fine clothes, pearls, and jewels, and on his way back, as he rode through a green lane, a hazel-twig struck against his hat; and he broke it off and carried it home with him. And when he reached home he gave to the step-daughters what they had wished for, and to Cinderella he gave the hazel-twig. She thanked him, and went to her mother's grave, and planted this twig there, weeping so bitterly that the tears fell upon it and watered it, and it flourished and became a fine tree. Cinderella went to see it three times a day, and wept and prayed, and each time a white bird rose up from the tree, and if she uttered any wish the bird brought her whatever she had wished for.
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