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
Russian fairy tale Russian fairy tale A Skazka – () (Russian fairy tale or Russian folktale) is a Russian word literally meaning "story", but used to mean fairy tale or a fantasy tale. The term can be used in many different forms to determine the type of tale or story being told. A "volshebnaya skazka" [fairy tale] is considered a magical tale. "Skazki o zhivotnykh" [tales of animals] are tales about animals, and "bytovye skazki" [household tales] are tales about everyday life. These variations of "skazki" give the term more depth, giving it more meaning than just fairy tales. Similarly to Western European