This is a true story – I mean, it actually happened. By which I mean, a real person told it, much as I'm telling it to you now. But is it a True History in the sense that the story she was telling was true? This is where it becomes difficult. She herself thought it was true, and – however absurd if not incredible and so probably untrue as it may sound to us to us now – those who heard it treated it as definitely true. With dreadful consequences. So, listen now to Bessie Dunlop of Lyne in Ayrshire. What happened as a result follows. A True History He helped me on my way as I was lost and it was dusk. He looked an honest older man, grey bearded, in a long grey coat – the sleeves were of the Lombard sort, old fashioned, and he wore a hat – broad brimmed and black, tied down below his chestnut face which creased and cracked around his eyes. A wand of white he carried. There is no more that I can tell...