Katie Woodencloak

Others of this type include "Cinderella", "The Sharp Grey Sheep", "The Golden Slipper", "The Story of Tam and Cam", "Rushen Coatie", "The Wonderful Birch", and "Fair, Brown and Trembling".

When the queen discovered this and, when the king returned, she feigned sickness and then bribed a doctor to say that she needed the flesh of the dun bull to be well again.

They passed through a forest made of copper trees and although the bull told her not to break off any branches, she broke off a leaf.

The bull won, though he was gravely injured, and the princess had to cure him with a horn of ointment that the troll carried on his person.

The bull gave her a wooden cloak and told her to ask for work at the castle as "Katie Woodencloak".

Wanting to find the woman, the king had all women in the kingdom try on the shoe, and it fit Katie's stepsister.

In Norway, the church plays a prominent role in many fairy tales, as this was a common place for meetings.

These versions are written down in Valdres and Telemark, and the girl is called Kirsti or Åse (the latter wearing a dirty leather dress).

An illustration by Theodor Kittelsen of Katie dressed in her wooden clothing.