Wikisource has original text related to this article:
"Allison Gross" (Roud 3212, Child 35), also known as "Alison Cross", is a traditional folk ballad.[1] It tells the story of "the ugliest witch in the north country" who tries to persuade a man to become her lover and then punishes him by a transformation.
- ^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Allison Gross"