Rushen Coatie

Scottish fairy tale

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.

## Synopsis

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"... but the dead calf said:

"Take me up, bone by bone,
And put me beneath yon grey stone;
When there is aught you want
Tell it me, and that I'll grant."

Illustration by John D. Batten

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 girl's and three stepsisters maltreated her, giving her only a coat made of rushes to wear—calling her Rushen-Coatie and gave her too little food. A red calf came to her, and when she asked for food, it told her to pull it from its ears. The stepmother set one of her daughters to spy on Rushen-Coatie, and the girl discovered the red calf.

The stepmother feigned illness and told the king that she needed the sweetbread from the red calf. The king had it slaughtered, but the dead calf told Rushen-Coatie to bury its body, and she did, except for the shankbone, which she could not find.

At Yuletide, the stepmother and her father jeered at her for wanting to go to church and set her to make dinner, but the red calf limped into the kitchen. It gave her clothing to wear and told her a charm to cook the supper. At church, a young prince fell in love with her.

She went twice more, and the third time, the prince set a watch to stop her, but she jumped over it and a shoe made of glass fell to the ground.

The prince declared he would marry the woman whose foot the shoe matched, and one of her stepsisters hacked off part of her foot to do it, but the blood gave her away. Then no one had failed to try except Rushen-Coatie, so the prince insisted on her trying it, and they married, But soon after it was the end of their marriage.

## See also

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* Bawang Putih Bawang Merah
* Cap O' Rushes
* Cinderella
* Katie Woodencloak
* One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes
* The Golden Slipper
* The Sharp Grey Sheep
* Vasilissa the Beautiful

## External links

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* The full text of Rushen Coatie at Wikisource

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Universe

| Characters|

* Cinderella
* Cinderella's stepsisters
* Fairy godmother
* Wicked stepmother
* Prince Charming
* Buttons

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National
variation|

* Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (Malay and Indonesian)
* Beauty and Pock Face (Chinese)
* Chūjō-hime (Japanese)
* Fair, Brown and Trembling (Irish)
* Finette Cendron (French)
* The Green Knight (Danish)
* Katie Woodencloak (Norwegian)
* Kongjwi and Patjwi (Korean)
* Maria (Philippines)
* Ochikubo Monogatari (Japanese)
* "Rhodopis" (Greek)
* Rushen Coatie (Scottish)
* The Sharp Grey Sheep (Scottish)
* The Story of Tấm and Cám (Vietnamese)
* Sumiyoshi Monogatari (Japanese)
* The True Bride (German)
* The Wonderful Birch (Russian)
* Ye Xian (Chinese)

Related|

* Jacinda Vidrio
* Catskin
* Into the Woods
* Into the Woods (2014 film)
* Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
* Disney's characters
* Stop! Look! and Laugh!
* Waltz Suite
* Black Cinderella Two Goes East
* Cinderella's Stepsister
* Cinderella (sports)
* Lying to Be Perfect
* Xuxa em O Mistério de Feiurinha (2009)
* Cinderella's Eyes (2011)
* Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)

Male
versions|

* Askeladden or Boots (Norwegian)
* Fire Boy (Japanese)

Media

| Films|

* Cinderella (1899)
* Cinderella or the Glass Slipper (1912)
* Cinderella (1914)
* A Lowland Cinderella (1921)
* A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
* Ella Cinders (1926)
* The Magic Shoes (1935)
* First Love (1939)
* Princess Cinderella (1941)
* Cinderella (1947)
* The Glass Slipper (1955)
* Cinderella (1955)
* Cinderfella (1960)
* Stop! Look! and Laugh! (1960)
* More Than a Miracle (1967)
* Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
* The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
* Cinderella (1979)
* Cinderella '80 (1984)
* Maid to Order (1987)
* Lua de Cristal (1990)
* If the Shoe Fits (1990)
* Ever After (1998)
* Ella Enchanted (2004)
* Cinderella (2006)
* Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010)
* Rags (2012)
* Cinderella (2021)
* Sneakerella (2022)
* Once upon a Crime (2023)
* Descendants: The Rise of Red (2024)
* The Ugly Stepsister (2025)

| A Cinderella Story series|

* A Cinderella Story (2004)
* Another Cinderella Story (2008)
* Once Upon a Song (2011)
* If the Shoe Fits (2016)
* Christmas Wish (2019)
* Starstruck (2021)

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Disney's Cinderella|

* Cinderella (1950)
* Dreams Come True (2002)
* A Twist in Time (2007)
* Cinderella (2015)

Animation|

* Cinderella Blues (1931)
* Poor Cinderella (1934)
* Cinderella Meets Fella (1938)
* Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
* Ancient Fistory (1953)
* Señorella and the Glass Huarache (1964)
* Cinderella (1979)
* The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin (1981)
* The Magic Riddle (1991)
* Happily N'Ever After (2007)
* Year of the Fish (2008)
* Cinderella the Cat (2017)
* Charming (2018)
* Cinderella and the Secret Prince (2018)

Television|

* Hey, Cinderella! (1968)
* Cindy (1978)
* Cinderella Monogatari (1996)
* Cinderella (1997)
* CinderElmo (1999)
* Cinderella (2000)
* I Was a Rat/Cinderella and Me (2001)
* La Cenicienta (2003)
* Bawang Merah Bawang Putih (2004)
* Floricienta (2004)
* Floribella (2005 Brazil)
* Floribella (2006 Portugal)
* Grazilda (2010)
* Aik Nayee Cinderella (2012)

Literary
adaptations|

* Celestina (1791)
* Ella Cinders (1925–1961)
* Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper (1954)
* Nine Coaches Waiting (1958)
* The Coachman Rat (1989)
* Witches Abroad (1991)
* Ella Enchanted (1997)
* I Was a Rat!: or, The Scarlet Slippers (1999)
* Just Ella (1999)
* Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
* Chinese Cinderella (1999)
* The Fairy Godmother (2004)
* Phoenix and Ashes (2004)
* Bella at Midnight (2006)
* Ash (2009)
* Princess of Glass (2010)
* Cinder (2012)

Opera|

* Cendrillon (1810 Isouard)
* La Cenerentola (1817 Rossini)
* Cendrillon (1899 Massenet)
* Cendrillon (1904 Viardot)
* La Cenicienta (1966 Hen)
* Cinderella (2016 Deutscher)

Ballet|

* Cinderella (1893 Fitinhof-Schell)
* Aschenbrödel (1900 Strauss-Bayer)
* Cinderella (1945 Prokofiev)
* Cinderella (1948 Ashton)

Musicals|

* Cinderella and the Prince, or The Castle of Heart's Desire (1904)
* A Stubborn Cinderella (1909)
* Mr. Cinders (1929)
* Cinderella (1957)
* Cindy (1964)
* The Penny Friend (1966)
* The Slipper and the Rose (1984)
* Into the Woods (1987)
* Sisterella (1996)
* Soho Cinders (2008)
* Cinderella (2013)
* Cinderella (2020)

Other|

* Paintings
* Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire (1843)
* Plays
* A Kiss for Cinderella (1916)
* Comics
* Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love
* Cinderalla
* Ella Cinders (1925–1961)
* Games
* Cinders
* Pantomime
* Sinderella

Songs|

* "Spread a Little Happiness" (1929)
* "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (1949)
* "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" (1950)
* "Cinderella" (1987)
* "Hey Cinderella" (1993)
* "It's Midnight Cinderella" (1996)
* "Cinderella" (2001)
* "Cinderella" (2002)
* "Cinderella" (2003)
* "Stealing Cinderella" (2007)
* "Cinderella" (2007)
* "C\C (Cinderella\Complex)" (2008)
* "Bad Cinderella" (2020)
* "Million to One" (2021)
* "Bibbidiba" (2024)

Albums|

* Cinderella (1957 original television cast recording)
* A Cinderella Story (2004 soundtrack)
* Disney's Princess Favorites (2002)
* Cinderella (2013 cast album)
* Cinderella (2015 soundtrack)
* Cinderella (2021 soundtrack)

Sociology|

* Cinderella complex
* Cinderella effect
* The Cinderella Movement

Commercials|

* A Coach for Cinderella
* A Ride for Cinderella

Adult|

* Cinder Ellen up too Late
* Cinderella (1977)
* Naughty Cinderella

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