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In 1566 John Walsh of Dorset was accused of witchcraft.
He admitted being able to tell if a person was bewitched, a gift bestowed upon him partly by fairies, he said.
The fairies, he claimed, lived in great heaps of earth in Dorsetshire and could be consulted for one hour, at either noon or midnight.
Walsh also defined three kinds of fairies: green,white and black, and said the black were the worst.
Bessy Dunlop, a wise woman healer of Ayrshire, was accused of witchcraft and sorcery on November 8, 1576,
She suddenly became a successful herbalist and healer and gained second sight, which helped her predict the recovery or death of patients and the location of lost objects.
In her trial, Dunlop testified that she had been taught these abilities by a phantom fairy named Thorne or Thome Reid. Reid told her that he had been ordered to be her attendant by the Queen of Elfhane.
Many years before, when Dunlop was in childbirth, the Queen appeared before her as a stout woman, asked for a drink and was given one.
Reid explained to Dunlop that afterwards, he had been killed in the battle of Pinkie on September 10, 1547, and had gone to Fairyland.
He now served the Queen of Elfhane.

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