GREGOR. LANG. CHAMBERS, I. and II. BLIND.
Ill-treated Calf given by _Heroine dislikes_ Ill-treated
heroine dying mother. _husband._ heroine
(by parents). (by step-mother).
Helpful Ill-treated _Henwife aid._ Menial heroine.
animal heroine (by
(red calf). stepmother
and sisters).
Spy on Heroine disguise _Countertasks._ Helpful animal
heroine. (rashin (black sheep).
coatie).
Slaying of Hearth abode. _Heroine Ear cornucopia.
helpful disguise._
animal
threatened.
Heroine Helpful animal. _Heroine Spy on heroine.
flight. flight._
Heroine Slaying of Menial heroine. Slaying of
disguise helpful animal. helpful animal.
(rashin
coatie).
Menial Revivified bones. (Fairy) aid. Old woman advice.
heroine.
Help at grave. Revivified bones.
Dinner cooked Task performing
(by helpful animal.
animal).
Magic dresses Magic dresses. Magic dresses. Meeting-place
(given by (church).
calf).
Meeting-place Meeting-place Meeting-place Dresses (not
(church). (church). (church). magic).
Flight. Flight Flight Flight twofold.
threefold. threefold.
Lost shoe. Lost shoe. Lost shoe. Lost shoe.
Shoe marriage Shoe marriage Shoe marriage Shoe marriage
test. test. test. test.
Mutilated foot Mutilated foot. Mutilated foot. Mutilated foot
(housewife's
daughter).
Bird witness. False bride. False bride. False bride.
Happy Bird witness. Bird witness. Bird witness
marriage. (raven).
House for Happy marriage. Happy marriage. Happy marriage.
red calf.
_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.