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 Water of Life (German fairy tale) story. The king wished to punish the older brothers, but they had already boarded a ship and were never seen again. The Water of Life (German fairy tale) "The Water of Life" () is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 97. It is Aarne-Thompson type 551. John Francis Campbell noted it as a parallel of the Scottish fairy tale, "The Brown Bear of the Green Glen". A king was dying. An old man told his sons that the water of life would save him. Each one set out in turn. The two older ones, setting