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Revision as of 23:39, 7 June 2019
"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 in "Molly Whuppie" and/or "Maol a Chliobain":
- Bizarrchitecture: Bridge as thick as a human hair.
- Catch Phrase: Yet another Ogre saying "Fe Fi Fo Fum".
- Murder by Mistake: The Ogre kills his own children by mistake.
- Youngest Child Wins: As ever so often in fairy tales.