# The Golden Slipper > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Golden_Slipper > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Golden_Slipper.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Slipper > Source revision: 1308416612 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Russian fairy tale For the pub in York, in England, see [The Golden Slipper, York](/source/The_Golden_Slipper%2C_York). 2010 stamp comemarating the Golden Slipper. **The Golden Slipper** ([Russian](/source/Russian_language): Золотой башмачок) is a Russian [fairy tale](/source/Fairy_tale) collected by [Alexander Afanasyev](/source/Alexander_Afanasyev) in *[Narodnye russkie skazki](/source/Narodnye_russkie_skazki)*. It is [Aarne-Thompson](/source/Aarne-Thompson) type 510A, the persecuted heroine. ## Synopsis An old man brought back two fish from the market for his daughters. The older one ate hers, but the [younger](/source/Youngest_son#Youngest_daughters), Hither, asked her fish what to do with it. It told her to put it in water, and it might repay her; she puts it in the well. The old woman loved her older daughter and hated Hither. She dressed up the older to take to mass to pray and also find a husband, and ordered Hither to husk two bushels of rye while they were gone. She wept beside the well and lamented to the fish, who gave her fine clothing and sent her off, husking the rye while she was gone. The mother came back talking of the beauty they had seen at Mass. She took the older daughter again, leaving Hither to husk three measures of barley and the younger went to Mass again with the fish's aid, where she catches the attention of a handsome prince. However, in a hurry to get home before the old woman finds out, Hither accidentally leaves her slipper behind, which was caught with some pitch. The prince vows to find out the owner of the slipper and tracks the old woman down and asks her daughters to try the slipper on. Although the old woman insisted on just the eldest, the prince was stubborn and allowed Hither to try; it fit and they married, lived happily and prospered.[1] ## See also - [Children's literature portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Children%27s_literature) - [Bawang Putih Bawang Merah](/source/Bawang_Putih_Bawang_Merah) - [Cinderella](/source/Cinderella) - [Fair, Brown and Trembling](/source/Fair%2C_Brown_and_Trembling) - [Katie Woodencloak](/source/Katie_Woodencloak) - [Rushen Coatie](/source/Rushen_Coatie) - [The Story of Tam and Cam](/source/The_Story_of_Tam_and_Cam) - [The Wonderful Birch](/source/The_Wonderful_Birch) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Afanasʹev, A. N.; Guterman, Norbert; Alexeieff, Alexandre; Jakobson, Roman (2006). *Russian fairy tales*. Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library. New York: Pantheon Books. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-394-73090-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-73090-5). - [Alexander Afanasyev](/source/Alexander_Afanasyev), *[Narodnye russkie skazki](/source/Narodnye_russkie_skazki)* - Heidi Anne Heiner, "[Tales Similar to Cinderella](http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/other.html)" v t e Russian fairy tales Key articles Skazka Bylina Folklore of Russia Alexander Afanasyev Alexander Pushkin Tales in Narodnye russkie skazki collected by Afanasyev "Koschei the Immortal" "Vasilisa the Beautiful" "Vasilisa the Priest's Daughter" "Father Frost" "Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka" "The Frog Princess" "Vasilii the Unlucky" "The White Duck" "The Princess Who Never Smiled" "The Wicked Sisters" "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" "The Magic Swan Geese" "The Feather of Finist the Falcon" "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf" "The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life" "Go I Know Not Whither and Fetch I Know Not What" "The Golden Slipper" "The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa" "The Wise Little Girl" "The Armless Maiden" "The Gigantic Turnip" "Storm-Bogatyr, Ivan the Cow's Son" "Emelya the Simpleton/At the Pike's Behest" "The Fiend" "The Lute Player" "The Language of the Birds" "The Maiden Tsar" "The Sea Tsar and Vasilisa the Wise" "The Norka" "Dawn, Midnight and Twilight" "Verlioka" "Sivko-Burko" "Donotknow" Tales by Pushkin "Ruslan and Ludmila" "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" Other "The Little Humpbacked Horse" "The Scarlet Flower" "The Snow Maiden" "The Hairy Man" "King Kojata" "The Tale About Baba-Yaga" "The Wonderful Birch" "The Girl as Soldier" "Green-Vanka" --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Golden Slipper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Slipper) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Slipper?action=history)). 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