The Story of Ragged Robyn — Oliver Onions

It is the late seventeenth century and thirteen-year-old Robyn is biding time on his farm in the Lincolnshire fens. One day returning through the mist with a pack of smuggled spirits he is waylaid by bandits, a gang ruled by the dreadful Queen of Holderness (Peg Fyfe of Yorkshire folklore). Robyn escapes with his life but he is left with a curse - one which will be visited on him in seven years time...