There is a ballad that tells the story of a man transformed into a worm after rejecting the advances of a witch. He is cursed to circle around a tree until one Halloween when the Seelie court rides by and a Fairy Queen returns him back to his orginal form.

Here is the ballad:

https://tam-lin.org/stories/Allison_Gross.html

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