![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is to ride as part of a company of elven knights. Every seven years, the fairies give one of their people as a teind ( tithe) to Hell and Tam fears he will become the tithe that night, which is Hallowe'en. He reveals that he was a mortal man, who, falling from his horse, was caught and captured by the Queen of Fairies. She asks him whether he was ever human, either after that reappearance or, in some versions, immediately after their first meeting resulted in her pregnancy. In some versions, she is informed of a herb that will induce abortion in all the variants, when she returns to Carterhaugh and picks a plant, either the same roses as on her earlier visit or the herb, Tam reappears and challenges her action. When asked about her condition, she declares that her baby's father is an elf whom she will not forsake. In most variants, Janet then goes home and discovers that she is pregnant some variants pick up the story at this point. She states that she owns Carterhaugh because her father has given it to her. When a young woman, usually called Janet or Margaret, goes to Carterhaugh and plucks a double rose, Tam appears and asks her why she has come without his leave and taken what is his. Most variants begin with the warning that Tam Lin collects either a possession or the virginity of any maiden who passes through the forest of Carterhaugh. Carterhaugh, near the confluence of the Yarrow Water and the Ettrick Water ![]()
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