Maggy Moulach

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Maggy Moulach is a fictional character from fairy folklore. Maggy Moulach was said to be a Highland Brownie. According to the folklore of Maggy Moulach, she had a son named Brownie-Clod, who was said to be a Dobie. This is to say, a none-too-bright variety of the brownie

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One tale tells of a certain Fincastle Mill, where none dared to go for fear of the haunting which was said to be about it. One night, a girl goes up to the mill for she was short of flour for a cake she was making.

She puts on a pot of water to boil as she sets to grinding the meal (to flour). No sooner has she does this than she is accosted on the stroke of midnight by an ugly little brown man, Brownie-Clod.

When asked what her name was, the quick girl replies 'Oh, I'm Mise mi fein', which is to say 'me myself.'

As the Dobie was leering at her in an unseemly manner, she defended herself by throwing boiling water upon him. When he fled to his mother, Maggy Moulach, he was asked had done this thing. Mortally scalded by the boiling water, he gasped out 'me fein,' which is to say "Me Myself" as he had been told.

Maggy would later find out the trickery of the girl on her wedding day. Maggy overheard the girl describing her trickery of the Dobie and took vengeance by killing her with a stool thrown with such force as it killed the girl dead on the spot.

Another legend of Maggy tells how she found a home near a farm. She was such a good worker that the owner of the farm fired all the farmhands so as to rely upon Maggy's work. This enraged her such that she went on strike and worse than this became a full out Boggart playing tricks upon him such that the farmer was obliged to hire back all the staff.

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