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 Gnome (fairy tale) son to marry the youngest princess anyway for being the only sibling in the offspring to do the right thing for his family. The rescue of the princesses and the throwing down the cliff by his rivals appear also in "The Story of Bensurdatu"; in "The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life", the hero is also thrown down by the rival. The Gnome (fairy tale) "The Gnome" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in "Grimm's Fairy Tales", tale number 91. It is Aarne-Thompson type 301A, The Quest for the Vanished Princesses.