_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.