A fragmentary story discovered by John Rhys in Cardiganshire. He believes it to be part of a Tom Tit Tot story, a notion borne out by the surviving rhyme,

Little did she know

That Trwtyn-Tratyn

Is my name!

In another version, the name is 'sili-ffrit', and yet again 'Sili-go-Dwt'. The same ending and the same desire to keep the name secret is to be found in the story of Gwarwyn-a-Throt. Rhys does not consider the suffix 'Trot' or 'Throt' to be Welsh, but rather thinks it an echo of the English Tom Tit Tot or the Scottish Habetrot. In one version of 'Habetrot' the kindly spinning fairy is like the rapacious Whuppity Stoorie, and even in the usual version of 'Habetrot' there is a trace of the same motif in the unconnected remark of the fairy overheard by the heroine: 'Little kens the wee lassie at the brae-hcad that Habetrot is my name'. The widespread fairy desire to keep his name secret is fully analysed in Edward Clodd's monograph, Tom Tit Tot.

[Motif: C432.1]