They go out into the world, but Cinderella is shut up indoors. However, Cinderella eventually escapes from her imprisonment and marries the Prince. Other symbols of the encounter with the shadow include the conversion motif. In the New Testament the Greek word taht is translated as 'conversion' means literally 'a turning about'. Both the ritual of baptism and the many Flood myths may be sen as the first stage of the individuation process.
Water is a common symbol of the unconscious.
In baptism a person is plunged into water and is said to be 'born again' when he or she rises out of the water. This symbolizes the descent of consciousness into the unconscious and the resulting new and fuller life. In some cultures there are myths of a diver who plunges to the bottom of the sea and brings up treasure. The water, again, may be seen as a symbol for the unconscious, and the treasure as the new self one finds when priviously usued psychic resources are given approperiate expression in one's conscious life. The story of the Frog Prince tells of a young woman who is visited on three consecutive nights by a frog.