And as for Rissiart Cap Dee, so called because he wore a black cap, it is said of him that when he lodged in some houses to cure those who were hurt by the fairies, he would suddenly rise up in the night, and make a very hasty preparation to go downstairs; which when one person observ’d, he said, “Go softly, Uncle Richard, least you fall”:  he made answer, “O, here are some to receive me.”  But when he was called to one person, who had inadvertently fallen among the fairies, and had been greatly hurt by them, and kept his bed upon it, whose relations had sent for the said Rissiart Cap Dee to cure him; who, when he came up to the sick man’s chamber, the sick man took up a pound-weight stone, which was by the bed-side, and threw it at the infernal charmer with all his might, saying, “Thou old villain, wast one of the worst of them to hurt me!” for he had seen him among them acting his part against him; upon which the old charmer went away muttering some words of malevolence against him.  He lived at the foot of Rhyw Coelbren, and there was a large hole in the side of the thatch of his house, thro’ which the people believed he went out at night to the fairies, and came in from them at night; but he pretended it was that he might see the stars at night.  The house is down long ago.  He lived by himself, as did the before-mentioned Charles Hugh, who was very famous in the county for his cures, and knowledge of things at a distance; which he could not possibly know without conversing with evil spirits, who walked the earth to and fro.  He is yet said to be an affable, friendly man, and cheerful; ’tis then a pity he should be in alliance with hell, and an agent in the kingdom of darkness.

I will only give one instance of his knowledge of things at a distance, and of secret things.  Henry John Thomas, of the parish of Aberystruth, a relation of mine, an honest man, went with the water of a young woman whom he courted, and was sick, to the said Charles Hugh, who, as soon as he saw Henry John, pleasantly told him, “Ho! you come with your sweetheart’s water to me.”  And he told him the very words which they had spoken together in a secret place, and described the place where they spoke.  It was the general opinion in times past, when these things were very frequent, that the fairies knew whatever was spoken in the air without the houses, not so much what was spoken in the houses.  I suppose they chiefly knew what was spoken in the air at night.  It was also said they rather appeared to an uneven number of persons, to one, three, five, &c.; and oftener to men than to women.  Thomas William Edmund, of Havodavel, an honest, pious man, who often saw them, declared that they appeared with one bigger than the rest, going before them in the company.