The liveliest of the Scottish versions of 'Rumpelstiltskin', to be found in Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Chambers suggests that the name comes from the Scots 'stoor', meaning dust, and is inspired by the swirl of dust in which the fairies are supposed to travel. He also mentions that in another version the name for the fairy is 'Fittletot'. Rhys points out that the names of many of these
Tom Tit Tot fairies end in 'Tot', 'Trot' or other similar suffixes.

The Gudewife of Kittlerumpit had lost her man, — they thought he was pressed for the sea, — and she had nothing to care for but a wee lad bairn still sucking and a muckle big soo that was soon to farrow, and she hoped for a big litter. But one fine morning she went round the hoose to the stye and poured the swill out in the trough, and there was the soo grainin' and gruntin' like one at death's door. She called and she coaxed, but never a stir was in it, and at last she sat down at the knockin' stane at her door, and she burst oot greetin'. And as she grat and roared she saw an old, queer-like leddy in green coming up the brae to her housie, which was on a hill with a green wood behind it. She had a long staff in her hand and there was something aristocratical aboot her, and when she got near the gudewife rose up and gave her a curchie and she says —

'Oh yir leddyship, I'm the maist waefulest woman in the world, and there's nane to help me.'