In the village of Erista, Uig, now depopulated, there was a man whose child was carried away by the Fairies, but as usual they left one in its place. But the substitute was sick and unhealthy, and continued so, notwithstanding the tender care taken of it. The old woman referred to in the story preceding came that way, and having heard of the sick child, came to the house. She told the goodwife that the child she nourished was not her own, but a worn-out Fairy, and that in order to recover her own child she must cast the false one away. To remove any doubts that might be in the goodwife’s mind, the woman advised her to knead a bannock of meal and to bake it against the fire, supported on nine wooden pegs or pins-the lower ends of which should be fixed in the hearth, and the others stuck in the edge of the bannock, and this done, to hide herself where she could see and hear the child, and if the child exhibited any extra-ordinary symptoms she might be sure it was a Fairy. The mother did so, and was not long in concealment when she saw the child raise its head in the cradle, and after look-ing round, exclaim, “S fada beo mi, ach cha ‘n fhaca mi a leithid do chul-leac ri bonnach.’ (I have lived long, but I never saw such a back stone (support) to a bannock.) To hear a child of its age speak, and that in such old-mannish accents, was enough to convince the mother. She consulted the old woman further, when she was told to throw the child into the river, and that her own child would soon be restored to her. She did so, and the’ infant’ commenced crying mightily for help-imploring mercy, but the goodwife was inexorable. In the morning she found her own child sleeping quietly in the cradle, which but the day before had been occupied by an old Fairy. Anon ‘Fairy Tales’, The Celtic Review 5 (1908), 155-171 at 160-161