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292 WEST HIGHLAND TALES.
The sheep that came alive and was lame, is like Norse
mythology (Edda — Dasent's translation, p. 51). " Thorr took his
he-goats and killed them both, and after that they were flain
and home to the kettle. . . . Then laid Thorr the goatskins
away from the fire, and told the husband and his household they
should cast the bones into the goatskins. . . . Thorr . .
hallowed the goatskins, then stood up the goats, and one of them
was halt in one of its hind feet."
One of the people had broken the thigh for the marrow.
I know nothing in any story quite like the first part, but it
islike Cinderella (Grimm, English, p. 81), where the birds and the
shoe appear ; but with a wholly different set of incidents. It is
like One Eye, Two Eyes, and Three Eyes (p. 387) ; but in that
story the church and the golden shoe do not appear.
See Grimm, vol. iii. p. 34, for numerous references to vpvsions
of Cinderella in books of all ages.
It has some resemblance to Bellin the Ham of the Countess
Daulnoy.
The second part is closer to the Norse versions of Cinderella
than to the English story, and may be compared with part of
Katie Woodencloak, where the birds and the shoe appear ; and
where there is a going to church.
I have many Gaelic versions of the incidents, all of which
resemble each other ; the golden shoe is sometimes transferred
to a man, which I take to be some confusion in the memory of
the person who tells the stoiy.