hand.

CELTIC VARIANTS OF CINDERELLA

MACLEOD. CAMPBELL. SINCLAIR. CURTIN.

Heroine, Ill-treated Ill-treated Ill-treated
daughter heroine heroine heroine
of sheep, (by stepmother). (by stepmother (by elder
king's wife. and sisters). sisters).

Menial heroine. Menial heroine. Menial heroine.

Helpful animal. Helpful cantrips. Henwife aid.

Spy on heroine. Spy on heroine. Magic dresses Magic dresses
(+ starlings on (honey-bird
shoulders). finger and
stud).

Eye sleep Eye sleep. Meeting-place Meeting place
threefold. (church). (church).

Slaying of Slaying of Flight twofold. Flight threefold.
helpful helpful
animal animal.
mother.

Revivified Revivified Lost shoe. Lost shoe.
bones. bones.

Magic dresses. Step-sister Shoe marriage Shoe marriage
substitute. test. test.

Golden shoe gift Heroine under Mutilated foot.
(from hero). washtub.

Meeting-place Meeting-place Happy marriage. Happy marriage.
(feast). (sermon).

Flight threefold. Flight Substituted Substituted bride
threefold. bride. (eldest sister).

Lost shoe Lost shoe. Jonah heroine. Jonah heroine.
(golden).

Shoe marriage Shoe marriage Three Three
test. test. reappearances. reappearances.

Mutilated foot. Mutilated foot. Reunion. Reunion.

False bride. Villain Nemesis.

Bird witness. Bird witness.

Happy marriage. Happy marriage.

Now, in the "English" versions there is practical unanimity in the
concluding portions of the tale. _Magic dresses--Meeting-place
(Church)--Flight--Lost Shoe--Shoe Marriage-test--Mutilated foot--False
Bride--_Bird witness--Happy Marriage_, follow one another with exemplary
regularity in