The True Bride

[2] Others of the first type include Cinderella, The Sharp Grey Sheep, The Golden Slipper, The Story of Tam and Cam, Rushen Coatie, The Wonderful Birch, Fair, Brown and Trembling and Katie Woodencloak.

[3] Other of the second type include The Twelve Huntsmen, The Two Kings' Children, and Sweetheart Roland.

One day, the stepmother set her to pick twelve pounds of feathers before night and promised a beating if she failed.

On the fourth day without his return, she packed up three dresses, embroidered with suns, moons, and stars, and set out to seek him.

She was unable to find him, whoever she asked, and finally took a job as a cowherd and buried her jewels and dresses under a rock.

When three days' festivities were held to celebrate the marriage, she dressed herself in her gown with suns and went to the first ball.