Fairies - Fairy-wife - Mediaeval woodcut illustration to the Fairy-wife legend of Melisande. Her husband, forwarned by a neighbour (riding away) spied upon his fairy-wife on a day she had formerly forbidden him to see her. She is serpent-tailed. Early 16th century.

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