+The Text+ is that of the Jamieson-Brown MS.
+The Story+ is one of the countless variations of the French 'Beauty and
the Beast.' A modern Greek tale narrates that a nereid, enamoured of a
youth, and by him scorned, turned him into a snake till he should find
another love as fair as she.
The feature of this ballad is that the queen of the fairies should have
power to undo the evil done by a witch.