The victim ‘a delicate-looking young woman, whose dropsical state was painfully apparent, deposed: The prisoner [Mary Colbert] came into the house where I was in Shandon Street [Cork]. I am a servant in Shandon Street… She said she would take me in hands, and cure me if I gave her 9s three times – that was 27 s. I was very glad of the opportunity… I got a loan of 9s, and she told me to get a naggin of milk, and she took out a bit of herbs, and said. ‘Oh! I have your cure here’… She rolled up a few withered herbs and put them on the table and made them stick up, and, pointing to them, said, ‘There’s the person that cursed you’… I would not give her the 9s, but she said she could not take it, but said, ‘Give it to me for the soul that injured you, for God’s sake.’… I said I would give her 3s each time. She went away and returned and said that as she went down the lane she was stopped by some person . the ‘Fairies’ – and desired by them to come back and cure me… I gave her 9s , and she did not come near me after.’ The accused had some withered herbs and a pack of cards in her possession that she used to ‘get the husbands for the girls’. ‘A Perfect Cure – Extraordinary Credulity’, Belfast News-Letter (11 August 1862), no 15352, p. 4