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Ferrar, William J.

"More English Fairy Tales"

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xiii., 454-65, "Snow-white Maiden." (6) Mr. Macleod's variant
communicated through Mr. Nutt to Miss Cox's volume, p. 533; and (7)
Curtin, _Myths of Ireland_, pp. 78-92. "Fair, Brown, and
Trembling"--these four in Gaelic, the last in Erse. To these I would add
(8, 9) Chambers's two versions in _Pop. Rhymes of Scotland_, pp. 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). 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).
ENGLISH VARIANTS OF CINDERELLA
GREGOR. LANG. CHAMBERS, I. and II. BLIND.
Ill-treated Calf given by _Heroine dislikes_ Ill-treated
heroine dying mother. _husband._ heroine
(by parents). (by step-mother).
Helpful Ill-treated _Henwife aid.


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