SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Marian Roalfe Cox: Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap O' Rushes, abstracted and tabulated

Hero conducted by bees to castle of rose-girl, guarded by dragon-- Menial hero (gooseherd at castle)- mantles and horses, procured by means of wishing-bell-- Meeting-place (ball)--[Threefold flight]-- Recognition of hero by means of pitch which rose-girl puts on his hair-- Escape from dragon . . .-- Happy marriage.

TABULATION

(1) Hero seeks rose-girl, whose castle is guarded by a dragon. Bees con duct him to her castle, where he hires himself as gooseherd.-- (2) He learns that she goes every night to a ball, and, by means of magic wishing-bell which his mother gave him, he gets a copper horse and mantle, a silver horse and mantle, lastly, a gold horse and mantle; goes three nights to the ball, and dances with the rose-girl.-- (3) She falls in love with him, and her mother counsels her to put some pitch in his hair that she may know him elsewhere.-- (4) In this way he is recognised next day when they see him as gooseherd, and he helps them to escape from the dragon…. (The story does not end here.)

Cox, Marian Roalfe. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap O' Rushes, abstracted and tabulated. London: David Nutt for the Folklore Society, 1893.

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