Once upon a time a lot of fairies lived in Mona.
One day the queen fairy’s daughter, who was now fifteen years of age,
told her mother she wished to go out and see the world.
The queen consented, allowing her to go for a day, and to change from a
fairy to a bird, or from a bird to a fairy, as she wished.
When she returned one night she said:
“I’ve been to a gentleman’s house, and as I stood listening, I heard the
gentleman was witched: he was very ill, and crying out with pain.”
“Oh, I must look into that,” said the queen.
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:
“Oh, dear queen, what shall I do for you? I’ll do anything you wish.”
“Money I do not wish for,” said the queen, “but there’s a little plot of
ground on the sea-cliff I want you to lend me, for I wish to make a ring
there, and the grass will die when I make the ring. Then I want you to
build three walls round the ring, but leave the sea-side open, so that
we may be able to come and go easily.”
“With the greatest of pleasure,” said the gentleman; and he built the
three stone walls at once, at the spot indicated.