Habetrot
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Habetrot is a figure in folklore of the Border counties of Northern England and Lowland Scotland. She is associated with spinning and the spinning wheel. She is an old, deformed woman who lives underground with a group of other spinsters, all disfigured by their work.
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- allied with
- Scantlie Mab
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wikipedia (1)
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“using manure from a farmyard that has not been disturbed for forty years, spun by Habetrot, bleached by an honest bleacher in an honest miller's milldam and sewed by an honest tailor.”
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