• Whippitie Stourie (pronounced whuppity stoorie) is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Robert Chambers in Popular Rhymes of Scotland. It is Aarne-Thompson...
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    Ireland (from The Fireside Stories of Ireland, 1870 by Patrick Kennedy); Whuppity Stoorie in Scotland (from Robert Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland, 1826);...
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    is in the forest that the dwarf of Rumpelstiltskin and the fairy of Whuppity Stoorie reveal their true names and therefore the heroines of those tales have...
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    along with versions from Selkirk and England. A Scottish variant of Whuppity Stoorie is very similar to this tale: the wife of a gentleman or a rich man...
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  • Scotland John Francis Campbell Popular Tales of the West Highlands Whuppity Stoorie 1858 Scotland Robert Chambers Popular Rhymes of Scotland The Wise Woman...
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