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Thorpe, Benjamin, Yule-Tide Stories. Popular Tales and Traditions from the Swedish, Danish, and German. (Variant from Gottland of the foregoing, No. 112.)

"KRAK-PELS."

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ABSTRACT

Ill-treated heroine (by step-mother and step-sister)--Heroine must wear cloak of crow's feathers to hide her beauty--Mannikin aid--Magic dresses procured by blowing pipe in forest--Meeting. place (church)-- Threefold flight-- Lost shoe-- Shoe marriage test--Heroine hides in oven--Animal witness (bird)--Happy marriage--Heroine shows kindness to step mother.

TABULATION

(1) Stepdaughter must wear cloak of crow's feathers, because she is so much more beautiful than crone's own daughter. Hence she is called Krak-Pels, i.e., Crow-Cloak.-- (2) Little old man, with whom she shares breakfast, aids her. He takes her to forest, and by blowing a pipe procures her dresses like stars, like the moon, like the sun. -- (3) She goes thrice to church without being recognised.-- (4) When prince's messenger comes to crone's dwelling to try gold shoe, Krak-Pels is frightened, and hides in oven. Bird in tree betrays her.-- (5) She marries king's son, and shows kindness to stepmother.

Cox, Marian Roalfe. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap O' Rushes, abstracted and tabulated. London: David Nutt for the Folklore Society, 1893.

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