Here's a story that's been passed down to me by your grandmother's grandmother's grandmother's— you get the picture.
Once upon a time when the world was young, the Fair Folk walked amongst the people as plain as you're sitting there at my feet. They lived in wee little cottages, drove their wee little carts, and sold their wee little crops and animals in the fair, just as you and I.
Next door to our grandmother's grandmother's---our ancestor’s house, there lived one such lad by the name of Robin Goodfellow.
Now, our ancestor, who you will know by the name of Maggie Peasebody, and this Robin Goodfellow were friends. They had been friends for a long time, ever since good Maggie Peasebody was but a bairn with ribbons in her hair. He shewed her many things—teensy groves of trees and pansies. Fair fond was Robin Goodfellow of Maggie, and gifted her pretty little horses and cows nary the size of your fist.
All was well and good, until one day when Maggie Peasebody was a lass of sixteen, Mister Goodfellow came knocking on her father’s door to ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage.
Her father boomed, “Oh ho! What a large request for such a small man. What would the likes of you have to offer in exchange for her hand in marriage?”
“Gold and silver have I,” said Robin Goodfellow. “All the riches you could ever dream.” But Maggie’s father was a hard, proud man, and said he would sooner marry his daughter to the Devil than to a man of such small stature.
“Speak not such things!” Maggie’s mother hissed, but alas, too late. The words had already been spoken, and Robin Goodfellow shook his finger at the father. “You’ll regret your words yet, Peasebody.”
By and by the proposal was forgotten, and Maggie Peasebody grew on to be one of the fairest maidens in all of our village. (Of course it can be argued that this wasn’t exactly the hardest thing to be, as our village was small, with more goats than maidens.)
One day a fine stranger, dressed in the finest silks and jewels, came knocking on the Peasebody’s door to—can you guess?—ask for Maggie’s hand in marriage, in exchange for fifteen bolts of silk, three chests full of gold, four more full of silver, and a fine cow that gave the richest milk you could ever dream.
Mister Peasebody was happy to marry off his daughter to this stranger, and the family dressed her up in bridal livery and gave her leave to follow him to his kingdom (for the stranger said he was a prince).
On the eve of the wedding, Robin Goodfellow, afeared and pale with love, came to Maggie’s window and said, “Hark, Maggie, my love. Beware your bridegroom. He is not what he seems.” And he put in her hand a hagstone, saying,
“In the hagstone’s eye, you’ll ken
What’er is hid from mortal men.
Look into it and you shall see
What bridegroom there awaiteth thee.”
Maggie laughed gaily. “Silly Puck,” she said to him. “Up to your tricks again.”
He shook his head sadly. “Nay, Maggie, no tricks. Only look and you will see.” And with that he disappeared, riding home on a ray of moonlight.
“Silly Puck,” she said again, brushing her hair in the mirror. “Nevermind.” But there was fear in Maggie’s heart, and tomorrow was her wedding day.
Tomorrow, she told herself. I’ll look, and I’ll see nothing but the handsome prince.
Tomorrow, she said again. Tomorrow.
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