The Vietnamese Cinderella heroine is reborn through repeated deaths and transformations.

Evidence

The jealous stepmother and Cam murdered Tam, and Cam took her place as queen. But Tam would not stay dead. Her spirit was reborn as a beautiful nightingale that sang near the king; when the jealous Cam killed the bird, Tam was reborn from its feathers as a great tree bearing one perfect, fragrant fruit; when Cam cut down the tree, Tam emerged from the fruit, living, taken in by a kind old woman, and at last revealed herself to the king, who knew his true queen. Through death after death, transformation after transformation — bird, tree, fruit, woman — Tam simply refused to be erased, returning each time until justice was done and she was restored, while the cruel stepmother and Cam met their fitting end. — , A Year of World Stories, 13330

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts directly with the passive Western Cinderella the same chapter has compared to Bawang Putih and Georgian variants.