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Ferrar, William J.

"More English Fairy Tales"

Happy marriage. Happy marriage.
red calf.
_Remarks._--In going over these various versions, the first and perhaps
most striking thing that comes out is the substantial agreement of the
variants in each _language_. The English--_i.e._, Scotch, variants go
together; the Gaelic ones agree to differ from the English. I can best
display this important agreement and difference by the accompanying two
tables, which give, in parallel columns, Miss Cox's abstracts of her
tabulations, in which each incident is shortly given in technical
phraseology. It is practically impossible to use the long tabulations
for comparative purposes without some such shorthand.
CELTIC VARIANTS OF CINDERELLA
MACLEOD. CAMPBELL. SINCLAIR. CURTIN.
Heroine, Ill-treated Ill-treated Ill-treated
daughter heroine heroine heroine
of sheep, (by stepmother). (by stepmother (by elder
king's wife.


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