The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress
- The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress
The Princess That Wore A Rabbit-Skin Dress is an American fairy tale from Kentucky, collected by Marie Campbell in "Tales from the Cloud Walking Country", listing her informant as Uncle Tom Dixon. [Marie Campbell, "Tales from the Cloud-Walking Country", p 161 Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1958]
It is Aarne-Thompson type 510B. [Marie Campbell, "Tales from the Cloud-Walking Country", p 259 Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1958] Others of this type include "Catskin", "Cap O' Rushes", "Donkeyskin", "Allerleirauh", "The King who Wished to Marry His Daughter", "The She-Bear", "Mossycoat", "Tattercoats", and "The Bear". [Heidi Anne Heiner, " [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/donkeyskin/other.html Tales Similar to Donkeyskin] "]
ynopsis
A king died after his wife gave birth to a girl. The queen remarried, and that husband also died. Then she married a third time, and that husband was so cruel to her that she became ill and died. The last husband wanted to marry her daughter. The daughter's mare told her to ask her stepfather for a dress of silver; with some help from fairies, it took a year and six months. Then she asked for a dress of gold, which took two years and six months, and a dress of diamonds and pearls, which took three years and six months. The mare gave her a dress of rabbit skin, and the princess rode off on her. Some hunters, including a prince, found her and took her to the castle, where they gave her a job in the kitchen. They were rude, saying she needed only the ears to be a rabbit. One day, the mare told her that the prince was going to a party; the mare carried her there and gave her a nut that held the silver dress. The next day, she went in the gold dress; the third, in the dress of diamonds and pearls, and the prince gave her a golden ring. She wore the ring after she took off the dress, and the prince recognized and married her.
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