[5] This ballad is founded on a real character—a miser—who by various means acquired a considerable property, and was the first person who ever left “tocher,” that is fortune, to daughter in Man. His name was Mollie Charane, which words interpreted are “Praise the Lord.” He lived and possessed an estate on the curragh, a tract of boggy ground, formerly a forest, on the northern side of the island, between the mighty mountains of the Snefell range and the sea.[13] Previously printed, with a slightly different text, and arranged in six lines instead of in three four-line stanzas, in Lavengro, 1851, Vol. i, p. 306.[25] This Ballad should be compared with The Cruel Step-dame, printed in The Serpent Knight and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 30–33. Also with The Transformed Damsel, printed in The Return of the Dead and Other Ballads, 1913, pp. 13–14.