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Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Unknown
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So the next day she went through her process and found that he was
bewitched by an old witch. So the following day she set out with six
other fairies, and when they came to the gentleman's house she found
he was very ill.

Going into the room, bearing a small blue pot they had brought with
them, the queen asked him:

"Would you like to be cured?"

"Oh, bless you; yes, indeed."

Whereupon the queen put the little blue pot of perfume on the centre
of the table, and lit it, when the room was instantly filled with
the most delicious odour.

Whilst the perfume was burning, the six fairies formed in line
behind her, and she leading, they walked round the table three
times, chanting in chorus:

"Round and round three times three,
We have come to cure thee."

At the end of the third round she touched the burning perfume with
her wand, and then touched the gentleman on the head, saying:

"Be thou made whole."

No sooner had she said the words than he jumped up hale and hearty,
and said:
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