Rushen Coatie 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 to wear—calling her Rushen Coatie—and too little food. A red calf came to her, and when
Bearskin (German fairy tale) composed by Siegfried Wagner (op. 1, 1899) and by Arnold Mendelssohn (op.11, 1900). Bearskin (German fairy tale) "Bearskin" () is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, as tale no. 101. A variant from Sicily, Don Giovanni de la Fortuna, was collected by Laura Gonzenbach in "Sicilianische Märchen" and included by Andrew Lang in "The Pink Fairy Book". Italo Calvino included another Italian version, The Devil's Breeches from Bologna, in his "Italian Folktales". It is Aarne–Thompson type 361, Bearskin, in which a man gains a fortune and a beautiful bride by entering into a pact with the devil. A