The only pre-modern story in which Robin Hood directly encounters the supernatural is Ben Jonson's play "The Sad Shepherd" (1641). Robin has to stop the Witch of Papplewick from using her shapeshifting and illusions to trick, rob, and torment the local shepherds.
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