Review: History and Fairy Tale Come Together
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2012
I enjoyed this while reading, but after finishing and looking up the word moutza...my mind is blown. How cool to connect the word cinder ("moutzos" in Greek), a curse/ridicule traditionally used against suspected witches, and the story of Cinderella. And then there's the addition of the Venetian glassblowers...I'd actually read a book about glassblowers on Murano before, but I never knew that glassblowers were actually exiled to the island of Murano because of the threat of fires. I learned a lot, and it was so cool how it all tied in to the story/symbolism of Cinderella!