Molly Whuppie

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"Molly Whuppie" is a Scottish fairy tale popularized by the Anglo-Australian folklorist Joseph Jacobs with his English Fairy Tales (1890). It is practically identical with the Scottish-Gaelic "Maol a Chliobain" that was first printed in 1862 in John Francis Campbell's Popular Tales of the West Highlands.

Tropes used in "Molly Whuppie" and/or "Maol a Chliobain" include: