_Source_.--_Folk-Lore Journal_, ii. p. 68, forwarded by Rev. Walter
Gregor. I have modified the dialect and changed “Mally” into “Molly.”
_Parallels_.--The first part is clearly the theme of “Hop o' my Thumb,”
which Mr. Lang has studied in his “Perrault,” pp. civ.-cxi. (_cf._
Köhler, _Occident_, ii. 301.) The change of night-dresses occurs in
Greek myths. The latter part wanders off into “rob giant of three
things,” a familiar incident in folk-tales (Cosquin, i. 46-7), and
finally winds up with the “out of sack” trick, for which see Cosquin,
i. 113; ii. 209; and Köhler on Campbell, in _Occident and Orient_, ii.
489-506.