LXXIII. Rushen Coatie LXXIII. Rushen Coatie of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 24 sentences and 394 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.
1 _Source. 2 _--I have concocted this English, or rather Scotch, Cinderella from the various versions given in Miss Cox's remarkable collection of 345 variants of _Cinderella_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892); see _Parallels_ for an enumeration of those occurring in the British Isles. 3 I have used Nos. 4 1-3, 8-10. 5 I give my composite the title "Rushen Coatie," to differentiate it from any of the Scotch variants, and for the purposes of a folk-lore experiment. 6 If this book becomes generally used among English-speaking peoples, it may possibly re-introduce this and other tales among the folk. 7 We should be able to trace this re-introduction by the variation in titles. 8 I have done the same with "Nix Nought Nothing," "Molly Whuppie," and "Johnny Gloke." 9 _Parallels. 10 _--Miss Cox's volume gives no less than 113 variants of the pure type of Cinderella--her type A. "Cinderella, or the Fortunate Marriage of a Despised Scullery-maid by Aid of an _Animal_ God-mother through the Test of a Slipper"--such might be the explanatory title of a chap-book dealing with the pure type of Cinderella. 11 This is represented in Miss Cox's book, so far as the British Isles are concerned, by no less than seven variants, as follows: (1) Dr. Blind, in _Archæological Review_, iii., 24-7, "Ashpitell" (from neighbourhood of Glasgow). 12 (2) A. Lang, in _Revue Celtique_, t. iii., reprinted in _Folk-Lore_, September, 1890, "Rashin Coatie" (from Morayshire). 13 (3) Mr. Gregor, in _Folk-Lore Journal_, ii., 72-4 (from Aberdeenshire), "The Red Calf"--all these in Lowland Scots. 14 (4) Campbell, _Popular Tales_, No. xliii., ii., 286 _seq. 15 _, "The Sharp Grey Sheep." 16 (5) Mr. Sinclair, in _Celtic Mag. 17 _, xiii., 454-65, "Snow-white Maiden." 18 (6) Mr. Macleod's variant communicated through Mr. Nutt to Miss Cox's volume, p. 533; and (7) Curtin, _Myths of Ireland_, pp. 19 78-92. " 20 Fair, Brown, and Trembling"--these four in Gaelic, the last in Erse. 21 To these I would add (8, 9) Chambers's two versions in _Pop. 22 Rhymes of Scotland_, pp. 23 66-8, "Rashie Coat," though Miss Cox assimilates them to Type B. Catskin; and (10) a variant of Dr. Blind's version, unknown to Miss Cox, but given in 7 _Notes and Queries_, x., 463 (Dumbartonshire). 24 Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to Mrs. Saxby's _Birds of Omen in Shetland_ (privately printed, 1893). ← previous LXXII. King John and the Abbotnext → English Variants of Cinderella↑ back to More English Fairy Tales This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/