The Bear (fairy tale)

Others of this type include Cap O' Rushes, Catskin, Little Cat Skin, Allerleirauh, The King who Wished to Marry His Daughter, The She-Bear, Tattercoats, Mossycoat, The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress, and Donkeyskin, or the legend of Saint Dymphna.

The king gave them to her, the nurse enchanted them, and when the princess put on the skin, it disguised her, and when she got into the wheelbarrow, it took her wherever she wanted to go.

At the ball, the prince fell in love with her, but she fled, so she would be back in time to hide herself.

This is an unusual variant of this tale as commonly, the heroine flees the threat of enforced marriage to her own father, as in Allerleirauh, The She-bear, Donkeyskin, and The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter,[3] or the legend of Saint Dymphna.

Other tales where the heroine has another motive include Catskin, where she flees being married off to the first man, Cap O' Rushes, where her father interpreted her words to mean she did not love him, and The Child who came from an Egg, whose (apparent) father had been conquered by another army.