in Rumpelstiltskin; he describes this to his bride in hopes of amusing her and getting her to agree to a wedding date. She is therefore able to invite her helpers and bring about the happy ending as in "The Three Spinners". International variants British Isles Folklorist Joseph Jacobs, in More English Fairy Tales, compared the English tale Habetrot and Scantlie Mab with the German tale. Professor Ernest Warren Baughman, in his work Type and Motif-index of the Folktales of England and North America, listed the origin of Lang's variant as Orkney Islands, along with versions from Selkirk and England. A Scottish variant of Whuppity Stoorie is very similar to this tale: the wife of a gentleman or a rich man finds six little women clad in green, who agree to do her household chores with the condition she invites them for dinner. Ireland An Irish variant, titled The Lazy Beauty and her Aunts, was published in The fireside stories of Ireland, and translated into French by Loys Brueyre, with the name La Paresseuse et ses Tantes. Irish folklorist Patrick Kennedy, on his notations about this variant from Ireland, mentioned the great similarity of the Irish version with the Italian one (The Seven Slices of Bacon) and the Norse one (The Three Aunts). Iberian Peninsula A Spanish variant was collected by Fernán Caballero with the name Las ánimas ("The souls"), and translated into English as The Souls in Purgatory. Writer Elsie Spicer Eells translated a Spanish variant with the title The Luck Fairies, where the fairies see the shoddy work of the lazy beauty and take it upon themselves to spin and weave with perfection. Variants in Portuguese language have been attested in compilations: As Tias ("The Aunts"), by Consiglieri Pedroso in Portuguese Folk-Tales; As fiandeiras, collected by Theophilo Braga; A devota das almas, collected by Brazilian folklorist Câmara Cascudo. Western Europe A variant from Normandy has been attested with the name La Fileuse or La Fileresse. A Flemish version of the tale exists with the name Het huwelijk van Gilda met de gouden haarlokken ("Le mariage de Gilda aux cheveux d'or"). Northern Europe A Swedish tale can be found in Gunnar Cavallius and George Stephens's Schwedische Volkssagen und Märchen, with the name Das Mädchen, das Gold aus Lehm und Schüttenstroh spinnen konnte. Central Europe A Czech variant has been collected by Karel Jaromír Erben, named O trech pradlenach and translated