The story was collected by Jeremiah Curtin in the myths and folklore and by Joseph Jacobs in his Celtic fairy tales. And it was published in 1956.

Everything Trembling wants is to go to church too. And because of that longing to attend church she asks a henwife for help. The henwife uses magic to dress her with the most beautiful dress and shoes ever. She also provides her a mare and a honeybird and a honeyfinger for each of her shoulders. Trembling goes to church three times in a row leaving quickly before anyone can follow her. With every visit to church she captivates the prince more and more with her beauty. On the third Sunday she loses one shoe while riding away. The prince picks up the shoe and says that he will marry the woman who's foot fit into the slipper. He travels all over Ireland to find the woman.

After months of searching they get to Trembling house. The two sisters put her in the closet trying to hide her from the prince. The two sisters tried on the shoe pt it didn't fit. The prince asked if there was another woman in the house. And then Trembling spoke up for herself. She tries on the shoe and it fits perfectly. Trembling put on all of three dresses she wore to church to identify that she was the woman at church.

The prince fights for Trembling against the Kings sons from Lochlin, Spain, Nyero and Greece and he wins. After the fights they get married.

After their wedding her sister Fair is still jealous. Fair pushes Trembling into the sea and tells the prince that she is Trembling. The prince did not trust her and he slept next to Fair for one night with a sword and he says that if the sword is warm the next morning Fair is indeed her sister but if it stays cold she lies. The sword stayed cold. A cowboy saw Fair pushing Trembling into the sea and Trembling got swallowed by a whale but she managed to call out the cowboy. She told him that he should tell the prince to come and save her. In the end the prince manages to save his wife and Fair is exposed.

Another similarity is that the sisters are the evil characters in the story. They treat her as if she were worth less and they are mean. They let her do all the chores like she is a slave.

Another difference is that she walks to the festival in the Grimm's version but in the Irish version she rides on mares to the church.

Christianity has been the largest religion in Ireland since the 5th century. And because of the strong Christian practice in the rural Ireland the Sunday mass was the central community event.

The henwife is a traditional Irish folk figure. She is a wise woman who keeps chickens but really is a folk magician. And in the story she is the one that conjures the dresses, the shoes and the animals.

This relates to the story because the sisters tried to hide Trembling but she spoke up for herself when the prince asked if there is another woman in the house.