“Woe worth you, Molly Whuppie! never you come again
Twice yet, carle, quoth she, I'll come to Spain.”

—  Joseph Jacobs , book English Fairy Tales

English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie

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