“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: