The characters of donors are numerous. Fairy godmothers were added to "Sleeping Beauty" by Perrault; no such figures appeared in his source, "Sole, Luna, e Talia" 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", by a gooseherd who is her friend for a long time before his mysterious powers are revealed. In "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", the heroine is given vital gifts by three old women she meets on the way.