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"The Elfin Knight": A Scottish Fairy Tale involving two Lords who decide to hunt upon a moor that is said to contain an Elfin Knight who kidnaps any who come in, one Lord, St. Clair, decides to wear a Shamrock as a sign of the Holy Trinity to be safe while the other, Gregory, dimisses both the tale of the Knight and the idea of wearing clover for protection as old wife's tales and the two set out for the hunt. There, they see the Elfin Knight, who Gregory sees as a regular knight clad in green and riding a black horse while St. Clair truly sees him as the Elfin knight riding a bird that seemed like a mortal steed. Gregory thinks St. Clair has gone mad and proceeds to follow the Knight while St. Clair then realized that Gregory was enchanted and set out to follow and free him.

Gregory finally catches up to the Knight in a random green circle where he surronded by dancing Goblins. One grizzeled Goblin tries to warn Gregory off from entering, but Gregory insists on entering. The Elfin Knight then offers him an emerald chalice covered with rubys, filled to the brim with heather ale. Gregory then drinks it and notices too late that the cup never empties. He then goes numb and falls unconcious.

St. Clair then came and the grizzeled Goblin warned him about entering. St. Clair listened and asked him about Gregory and what was going on here. The Goblin told him that Gregory was about to turned into what he was and forced to serve for seven years. The Goblin then told St. Clair that to free his friend, St. Clair would need to stay where he was until the bell rang for Martins (one of the times monks tradtionally prayed) then he had to walk around the circle nine times, then go in, never open his mouth while in the circle or the monster underneath would eat him, grab the chalice, and carry it outside the circle.

St. Clair followed those instructions to the later, throwing the chalice from him once out of the circle. Then everything disapeared except Gregory, who St. Clair went and embraced him and rubbed him so that the feeling would return to his body. They looked for where St. Clair flung the cup, and instead find a grey whinstone with a drop of dew contained in a hollow crevice.