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
Prunella (fairy tale) Prunella (fairy tale) Prunella is an Italian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it "The Grey Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 310, the Maiden in the Tower. A version of the tale also appears in "A Book of Witches", by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Italo Calvino included a variant Prezzemolina in his "Italian Folktales". He took a variant from Florence, but noted that variants were found over all of Italy. The captor who demands his captive to do impossible tasks, and the person, usually the captor's child, who helps with them, is a very common fairy tale theme -- Nix Nought Nothing,