There is a similar story told in Zennor of one Cherry who left home to seek service in the low country parishes, and was met on Lady Downs by a fairy gentleman, a widower, who took her to live with him; all went well, till, from curiosity, she disobeyed his orders and was discharged, but not until she had become so much attached to her fairy master that she died with grief on being taken back to her old home.
Though 'modern instances' make up these stories, we have many old fragmentary fairy tales that contain the same fancies; the loss of happiness through inordinate curiosity.
[A Tinner's Fireside Stories.]
[The Knockers of Ballowal.]
Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire,
To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire.
Goldsmith.
