Chapter LXXXI: Habetrot and Scantlie Mab

_Source._--Henderson's _Folk-Lore of Northern Counties_, pp. 258-62 of Folk-Lore Society's edition. I have abridged and to some extent rewritten.

_Parallels._--This in its early part is a parallel to the _Tom Tit Tot_, which see. The latter part is more novel, and is best compared with the Grimms' _Spinners_.

_Remark._--Henderson makes out of Habetrot a goddess of the spinning-wheel, but with very little authority as it seems to me.