Rushen Coatie

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.

The stepmother set one of her daughters to spy on Rushen-Coatie, and the girl discovered 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.

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.