Parallels.—­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.  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 Archaeological Review, iii., 24-7, “Ashpitell” (from neighbourhood of Glasgow). (2) A. Lang, in Revue Celtique, t. iii., reprinted in Folk-Lore, September, 1890, “Rashin Coatie” (from Morayshire). (3) Mr. Gregor, in Folk-Lore Journal, ii., 72-4 (from Aberdeenshire), “The Red Calf”—­all these in Lowland Scots. (4) Campbell, Popular Tales, No. xliii., ii., 286 seq., “The Sharp Grey Sheep.” (5) Mr. Sinclair, in Celtic Mag., 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. Menial heroine.
  animal heroine (by
  (red calf). stepmother
                  and sisters).

Spy on Heroine disguise Countertasks. Helpful animal
  heroine. (rashin (black sheep).
                  coatie).

Slaying of Hearth abode. Heroine Ear cornucopia.
  helpful disguise.
  animal
  threatened.

Heroine Helpful animal. Heroine Spy on heroine.
  flight. flight.

Heroine Slaying of Menial heroine.  Slaying of
  disguise helpful animal. helpful animal.
  (rashin
  coatie).

Menial Revivified bones. (Fairy) aid.  Old woman advice.
  heroine.