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
The Witch (fairy tale) she could not force her way through it. They found their father again and he drove the stepmother out of the house. The Witch (fairy tale) "The Witch" is a Russian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Yellow Fairy Book". A version of the tale, under the title "The Twins and the Snarling Witch", appears in "A Book of Witches" by Ruth Manning-Sanders. A poor widower with twin children, a girl and a boy, remarried. The stepmother had several more children and mistreated the twins. Finally, she told them she was sending them to her grandmother in the