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It's a completely fictional fairy tale- the exact origins of it are unknown, but thousands are known throughout the world. The earliest recorded version was by the Greek Geographer Strabo in about 7 BC, about a slave girl called Rhodopis who goes on to marry the King of Egypt. The most popular versions were published by the French author Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697, and later by the Brothers Grimm in their collection Grimm's Fairy Tales. It is an archetypal story about how good, virtuous people who are oppressed by the cruel and unjust, can get their rewards in the end. Most versions of it are set in an amorphous amalgam between Mediaeval times and the early 18th Century.

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