An experience rather like this [a friendly fairy] was told me by a friend, a clergyman’s widow. She suffers from an injured foot and one day she was sitting on a seat in Regents Park, wondering how she would find strength and courage to go home. Suddenly she saw a tiny mian in green, who looked at her very kindly and said, ‘God home. We promise that your shan’t pain you tonight.’ Then disappeared but [?and] the pain, which had been considerable, was quite gone. She walked home easily, and all that night she slept painlessly. On another occasion she had seen a group of fairies dressed in flowers dancing together on one side of the flower-beds, but this had only been a momentary glimpse and she had heard nothing. (Briggs 2011, 157)