Anglicising the name to "Molly" from "Mally" Joseph Jacobs used this source of the story in his English Fairy Tales.
Her older sisters did not want her and tried to keep her away three times, tying her to a rock, a peat stack, and tree, but her mother's blessing let her follow them, so they went on together.
Once again she hid under the bed and stole it while he slept, but he woke and chased her, and again she escaped over the bridge of one hair.
Then the king said if she stole the ring the giant wore on his finger, he would marry his youngest son to her.
Then she would hang the sack on the wall, go to the woods for a thick stick, and come back and beat him dead.
The dog's barking and the cat's meows were too loud for him to hear his wife's voice, but he saw Molly running off with the ring.
He chased her, but she escaped over the bridge of one hair, married the king's youngest son, and never saw the giant again.
[6] The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as both tale type ATU 327B, "Small Boy Defeats the Ogre" (first part), and ATU 328, "Boy Steals the Giant's Treasure" (second part).
[7] The motif of the mother's blessing for less food or her curse for more is a common British folktale theme: "Jack and his Comrades", "The Red Ettin", "The King Of Lochlin's Three Daughters", "The Adventures of Covan the Brown-haired", and "Jack and His Golden Snuff-Box".
Variants with the heroine appear in Celtic (Ireland and Scotland) and Germanic languages (England, Scandinavia and Anglo-American tradition).