Mistress Quickly, in her guise as Queen of the Fairies. The Fords and the Pages decide that the best way to visit some karma on Falstaff is to entice him to a certain oak tree that has a reputation of being haunted, and have kids dressed up as fairies poke him and burn him with candles. Thus he, conquered and humiliated, will leave them all alone.
Did I say it made sense? That's where the time-honoured principle of "The voluntary suspension of disbelief" comes into play.
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