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Queen of Elphame or "Elf-hame" , in the folklore belief of Lowland Scotland and Northern England, designates the elfin queen of Faerie, mentioned in Scottish witch trials. She is equivalent to the Queen of Fairy who rules Faërie or Fairyland. The Queen, according to testimony, has a husband named "Christsonday".
Such a queen also appears in the legend of Thomas the Rhymer, but she is queen of a nameless world in the medieval verse romance. The name "Queen of Elfland" is mentioned for her only in a later ballad. Thomas the Rhymer's abduction by the queen was not just familiar folklore, but described as a kindred experience by at least one witch. The "Queen of Fairies" in Tam Lin may be the queen of the same world, at least, she too is compelled to deliver humans as "tithe to hell" every seven years.
In Scottish popular tradition the Fairy Queen was known as the Gyre-Carling or Nicnevin, In one metrical legend, "The Faeries of Fawdon Hill" is where the Fairy Court is held, presided over by Queen Mab.