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After her father died, the stepmother took away Zahra’s beautiful

clothes and gave her old clothes and rags to wear. Then she took away

her bedroom and made her sleep in the attic. From that time on Zahra

was ordered to do all the housework.

One day, as the poor orphan was tending the fireplace, some live

cinders fell on her dress and burned holes into it. Trying to put out the

cinders, she became covered with soot. Her stepsisters began to laugh

at her. ‘Cinder-ella! Cinder-ella!’ they teased and taunted. After that

they no longer used her real name, but only called her ‘Cinderella’.