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 Duration of Life (fairy tale) The Duration of Life (fairy tale) "The Duration of Life" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in "Grimm's Fairy Tales", number 176. It was first included in their fourth edition. In the Aarne-Thompson classification system, it is classified as both Types 173 and 828, Men, Animals, and the Span of Life. God was giving the animals and man their duration of life and offered all thirty years. He lessened the donkey's years because of his burdens, the dog's because he had to run about, and the monkey's because he always had to amuse people. Man, however,