Way back in the day, I found a spell for conjuring fairies in a surprising, though not unrealistically so, location. I wrote the spell down, out of the principle of the thing, along with a citation.
Several years pass, and up on Google Books there appears a copy of the book with the fairies, Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English Writers, to Which Are Prefixed Two Preliminary Dissertations: 1. On Pigmies, 2. On Fairies, by Joseph Ritson (1875). I do a little dance of joy.
Anyway. The first spell, on page 276. Before reading, please remember that just because it’s public domain magic doesn’t mean that you should do it. None of us are widely read enough to come out of that sort of encounter safely. From Chapter XVII:
Conjurations for Fairies:
FROM MS. Ashmole 1406, written about the year 1600. One of these has been printed by Dr Percy. The impiety of the originals has been omitted ; but it runs through all the old charms and conjurations, and affords a curious picture of the times. The three last are given from a MS. in my own possession.
An excellent way to gett a fayrie, but for myselfe I call Margarett Sarratice, but this will obteine any one that is not allready bownd.
First, gett a broad square cristall or Venus glasse, in length and breadth three inches. Than lay that glasse or christall in the bloud of a white henne three Wednesdayes, or three Fridayes ; then take it out and wash it with holy aqua, and fumigate it. Then take three hazle stickes or wands of an yeare groth, pill them fayre and white, and make soe longe as you write the spiritts name, or fayries name, which you call three times, on every sticke being made flatt one one side. Then bury them under some hill, whereas you suppose fayries haunt, the Wednesday before you call her, and the Friday followinge take them uppe, and call her at eight or three or ten of the clocke, which be good plannetts and howres for that turne. But when you call, be in cleane life, and turne thy face towardes the East ; and when you have her, bind her to that stone ore glasse.
