The Daughter of the Skies (Scottish Gaelic: Nighean Righ nan Speur; English: 'Daughter of the King of the Skies') is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing his informant as James MacLauchlan, a servant from Islay.
There, the housewife told him that her husband was to marry the daughter of the King of the Skies, let her stay the night, gave her shears that would cut on their own, and sent her on to her middle sister.
She found a place to stay with a henwife and asked for something to sew, although the king's daughter was marrying the next day and no one was working.
in this tale type, the heroine is a human maiden who marries a prince that is cursed to become an animal of some sort.
[7] According to Hans-Jörg Uther, the main feature of tale type ATU 425A is "bribing the false bride for three nights with the husband".
[8] In fact, when he developed his revision of Aarne-Thompson's system, Uther remarked that an "essential" trait of the tale type ATU 425A was the "wife's quest and gifts" and "nights bought".
A "White Red-eared Hound" appears and tells the knight he can find the lost cattle, in exchange for marrying one of his daughters.
The wife wants to visit her family and give birth to their child under her father's roof, but with the condition she does not reveal his true name.
She reaches the houses of three old women who say her husband passed by them with their three children, and each give a magical object to the knight's daughter: a scissor, a thimble and a needle.