A teenager with an evil stepmother and stepsisters finds romance.

Meanwhile, the evil stepmother is trying to marry off Marfushka.

It's not that she treated me like her evil stepmother or anything.

She stared at me as if I were an evil stepmother.

But there is no evil stepmother: "The shrill voices were all inside.

However, it may have been exaggerated, as having an evil stepmother would be seen as a spiritual trial for Elizabeth.

And when that's not the case we say, "well, she's the evil stepmother."

Some of these variants feature an evil stepmother as the villain.

Ellen dropped her gaze to the note from Wilhelm and tried not to feel like an evil stepmother.

The evil stepmother had already discovered their escape, however, and bewitched all the springs in the forest.