--- title: LXXIII. Rushen Coatie — More English Fairy Tales · full text with trees description: LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: _Source. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / LXXIII. Rushen Coatie # LXXIII. Rushen Coatie LXXIII. Rushen Coatie of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 24 sentences and 394 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/1/) — \_Source. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/2/) — \_--I have concocted this English, or rather Scotch, Cinderella from the various versions given in Miss Cox's remarkable collection of 345 variants of \_Cinderella\_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892); see \_Parallels\_ for an enumeration of those occurring in the British Isles. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/3/) — I have used Nos. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/4/) — 1-3, 8-10. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/5/) — I give my composite the title "Rushen Coatie," to differentiate it from any of the Scotch variants, and for the purposes of a folk-lore experiment. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/6/) — If this book becomes generally used among English-speaking peoples, it may possibly re-introduce this and other tales among the folk. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/7/) — We should be able to trace this re-introduction by the variation in titles. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/8/) — I have done the same with "Nix Nought Nothing," "Molly Whuppie," and "Johnny Gloke." - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/9/) — \_Parallels. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/10/) — \_--Miss Cox's volume gives no less than 113 variants of the pure type of Cinderella--her type A. "Cinderella, or the Fortunate Marriage of a Despised Scullery-maid by Aid of an \_Animal\_ God-mother through the Test of a Slipper"--such might be the explanatory title of a chap-book dealing with the pure type of Cinderella. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/11/) — This is represented in Miss Cox's book, so far as the British Isles are concerned, by no less than seven variants, as follows: (1) Dr. Blind, in \_Archæological Review\_, iii., 24-7, "Ashpitell" (from neighbourhood of Glasgow). - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/12/) — (2) A. Lang, in \_Revue Celtique\_, t. iii., reprinted in \_Folk-Lore\_, September, 1890, "Rashin Coatie" (from Morayshire). - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/13/) — (3) Mr. Gregor, in \_Folk-Lore Journal\_, ii., 72-4 (from Aberdeenshire), "The Red Calf"--all these in Lowland Scots. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/14/) — (4) Campbell, \_Popular Tales\_, No. xliii., ii., 286 \_seq. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/15/) — \_, "The Sharp Grey Sheep." - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/16/) — (5) Mr. Sinclair, in \_Celtic Mag. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/17/) — \_, xiii., 454-65, "Snow-white Maiden." - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/18/) — (6) Mr. Macleod's variant communicated through Mr. Nutt to Miss Cox's volume, p. 533; and (7) Curtin, \_Myths of Ireland\_, pp. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/19/) — 78-92. " - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/20/) — Fair, Brown, and Trembling"--these four in Gaelic, the last in Erse. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/21/) — To these I would add (8, 9) Chambers's two versions in \_Pop. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/22/) — Rhymes of Scotland\_, pp. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/23/) — 66-8, "Rashie Coat," though Miss Cox assimilates them to Type B. Catskin; and (10) a variant of Dr. Blind's version, unknown to Miss Cox, but given in 7 \_Notes and Queries\_, x., 463 (Dumbartonshire). - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/64/24/) — Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to Mrs. Saxby's \_Birds of Omen in Shetland\_ (privately printed, 1893). - ← previous: [LXXII. 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