“Whether or not dealing with the Devil might mean the forfeiture of one’s soul was likely not a major concern of ordinary or uneducated people in Early Modern times, either—beliefs on the afterlife were also not uniform and neat across Folk Europe. The idea of taking up residence in the Fairy World after death (to make an example) was a genuinely held belief among many people in the British Isles in the Early Modern period. This was a complete alternative vision of the afterlife which stood alongside the official narrative that one either went to “heaven or hell” when they died.”