Rushen Coatie to try except Rushen Coatie, so the prince insisted on her trying it, and they married. Rushen Coatie Rushen Coatie or Rashin-Coatie is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in his "More English Fairy Tales". It is Aarne–Thompson type 510A, the persecuted heroine, as is Cinderella. A queen with a daughter died. On her deathbed, she told her daughter that a red calf would come to her, and she could ask it for help. The king remarried, to a widow with three daughters, and the stepmother and stepsisters maltreated her, giving her only a coat made of rushes
The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale) The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale) "The Robber Bridegroom" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 40. Joseph Jacobs included a variant, "Mr Fox" in "English Fairy Tales", but the original provenance is much older; Shakespeare (circa 1599) alludes to the "Mr. Fox" variant in "Much Ado About Nothing", Act 1, Scene 1: It is Aarne–Thompson type 955, the robber bridegroom. This type is closely related to tales of type 312, such as "Bluebeard", and type 311, such as "How the Devil Married Three Sisters" and "Fitcher's Bird". A miller wished to marry his daughter off,