Donor (fairy tale) by Giambattista Basile. In the Grimm Brothers' variant of "Cinderella", the protagonist is aided not by her fairy godmother but by her dead mother, as is the heroine of the Finnish variant, "The Wonderful Birch". A great variety of other figures may also take this place. In "Vasilissa the Beautiful", the heroine is aided by a wooden doll that her dying mother had given her; in "Rushen Coatie", by a red calf sent to her by her dead mother, a calf that can continue to aid her after its death; in "Katie Woodencloak" by a mysterious dun bull; in "Tattercoats",
Fairy Tale (Suk) of the "Symphony" and "Fairy Tale", with sincere thanks for his understanding and performance this maniscript is dedicated — Josef Suk”". Antonín Dvořák wrote about the piece: "“That is music from heaven”". The Suite was revised in 1912, and remains one of Suk's most successful works. Fairy Tale (Suk) , Op. 16 (Fairy Tale) is an orchestral suite from incidental music composed for Julius Zeyer's mythological drama "Radúz and Mahulena" by Josef Suk in 1897–1898. Zeyer's dramatic poem is a love story, combining classical fairy-tale motifs with mythological references. Suk started to write incidental music in 1897 and soon became