Catskin; and (10) a variant of Dr. Blind's version, unknown to Miss Cox, but given in 7 Notes and Queries, x. 463 (Dumbartonshire). Mr. Clouston has remarks on the raven as omen-bird in his notes to Mrs. Saxby's Birds of Omen in Shetland (privately printed, 1893).
Remarks.—In going over these various versions, the first and perhaps most striking thing that comes out is the substantial agreement of the variants in each language. The English—i.e., Scotch, variants go together; the Gaelic ones agree to differ from the English. I can best display this important agreement and difference by the accompanying two tables, which give, in parallel columns, Miss Cox's abstracts of her tabulations, in which each incident is shortly given in technical phraseology. It is practically impossible to use the long tabulations for comparative purposes without some such shorthand.
CELTIC VARIANTS OF CINDERELLA.
| Macleod. | Campbell. | Sinclair. | Curtin. |
| Heroine, daughter of sheep, king's wife. | Ill-treated heroine (by stepmother). |
Ill-treated heroine (by stepmother and sisters). |
Ill-treated heroine (by elder sisters). |
| Menial heroine. | Menial heroine. | Menial heroine. | |
| Helpful animal. | Helpful cantrips. | Henwife aid. | |
| Spy on heroine. | Spy on heroine. | Magic dresses. (4-starlings on shoulders). | Magic dresses.(honey-bird, finger and stud). |
| Eye sleep threefold. | Eye sleep. | Meeting-place (church). | Meeting-place (church). |
| Slaying of helpful animal mother. | Slaying of helpful animal. | Flight twofold. | Flight threefold. |
| Revivified bones. | Revivified bones. | Lost shoe. | Lost shoe. |
| Magic dresses. | Stepsister substitute. | Shoe marriage test. | Shoe marriage test. |
| Golden shoe gift (from hero). | Heroine under washtub. | Mutilated foot. | |
| Meeting-place (feast). | Meeting-place (sermon). | Happy marriage. | Happy marriage. |
| Flight threefold | Flight threefold | Substituted bride. | Substituted bride. (eldest sister) |
| Lost shoe (golden). | Lost shoe. | Jonah heroine. | Jonah heroine. |
| Shoe marriage test. | Shoe marriage test. | Three reappearances. | Three reappearances. |
| Mutilated foot. | Mutilated foot. | Reunion. | Reunion. |
| False bride. | Villian Nemesis. | ||
| Bird witness, | Bird witness, | ||
| Happy marriage. | Happy marriage. |
