The Accidental Highwayman

by Ben Tripp

  * The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749).

  * This liqueur, called “fairy drops,” came into brief vogue in 1919 when Faerie enthusiast Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was given the recipe by a well-meaning feyín. Without the necessary caprizel to render it nontoxic, it killed a number of people at séances and planchette readings—most notably the spiritualist Madam Edith Lafoon.