"The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter" is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in Popular Tales of the West Highlands, listing his informant as Ann Darroch from Islay.
[2] A king lost his wife a long time ago, and declared he would not marry anyone who did not fit her clothes.
In his 1987 guide to folktales, folklorist D. L. Ashliman classified the tale, according to the international Aarne-Thompson Index, as type AaTh 510B, "A King Tries To Marry His Daughter",[3] thus related to French tale Donkeyskin, by Charles Perrault, and other variants, such as Allerleirauh, Cap O' Rushes, Mossycoat, The Bear, and The She-Bear.
Her fiancé provides her with the requested items, and Rashiecoat leaves home for another castle, where she works in the kitchen, washing dishes and preparing the food.
On the third time, the king's son follows her after she tries to slip away from the church and grabs one of her shoes before she vanishes, and declares he will marry the one that fits the slipper.
The king's son summons the ladies to court to try on the slipper, and a hen-wife's daughter passes herself off as its true owner, but a bird's cooing reveals the deception.
[5] In an Irish tale from County Cork titled Coateen of the Rushes, a king and queen have a daughter.
The queen asks her husband to marry only one that can fit her pair of glass slippers, then dies.
Three months later, the king prepares a grand ball, and Coateen of the Rushes goes with the first dress riding a horse her mother's spirit gives her, but she can only stay until the clock strikes three.
After she dies, the king tries to find a new wife by having women try on the dead queen's dress, but none fits.
The old man then advises the princess to wear the coat made of rashes, flee the castle and meet him in the woods, for he will be in the shape of a bird.
Meanwhile, the princess and the bird - who is Jamuck - finds work in the kitchen of the king of Scotland's castle.