The story of Cupid and Physche is can be seen as a variety of displaced fairy tales. These stories include Cinderella and Snow White. In Cinderella evil step sisters get in the way of the beautiful maiden and her prince. Physche's sisters tell the girl to go against her husbands wishes which only puts her into a world of trouble. The moral in both stories is never listen to your rotten sisters. In Snow White, the beauties step mother disdains the fact that her step daughter is more beautiful than she. Physche's future mother-in-law Venus is equally jealous of Physche's beauty and wants her killed. The moral of this story is to try and avoid crones that are over the hill and bitter that there is a new and more fair damsel in the land.
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