In Irish folklore Girle Guairle ("stormy storm") is a jinni in a story very similar to those of Peerifool, Rumpelstiltskin, and Tit Tot. According to the story a very busy wife worked late into the night as she was very anxious over her spinning and weaving of flax. A jinni overheard the wife's distress and offered to do the work for her on the condition his name, Girle Guairle, be remembered. The wife agreed but the jinni disappeared with the spinning; furthermore, as soon as the jinni was gone from sight his name was forgotten as well. The wife was afraid of what her family would think but more fearful of the vengeance of the jinni whose name she had forgotten. Nervous she went walking in the field and happened upon a jinn circle where she heard the jinni she had bargained with signing "If you woman knew my name to be Girle Guairle, I would have neither frieze nor canvas." The wife happily returned home and waited for the jinni to return with the spinning completed, and as soon as he appeared the wife greeted him by name. Girle Guairle handed over the spinning as promised and disappeared in a fit of rage.
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