The Wonderful Birch

"The Wonderful Birch" by Henry Justice Ford (1890)

The Wonderful Birch (Russian: Чудесная берёза) is a Finnish/Russian fairy tale. A variant on Cinderella, it is Aarne–Thompson folktale type 510A, the persecuted heroine. It makes use of shapeshifting motifs. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book.