Fairies appear to have all the passions and ‘wants of men’; but are great lovers of cleanliness and propriety;, for the observance of which they frequently reward servants, by dropping money in their shoes: they likewise severely punish sluts and slovens, by pinching them black and blue. Lilly says they are likewise friends to persons of strict diet, of an upright life, and using fervent prayers to God. Fairies are particularly fond of making cakes; in the doing of which they are said to be very noisy. In Ireland, they frequently lay bannocks, a kind of oaten cakes, in the way of travellers over the mountains and if they do not accept of the intended favour and eat the bannock, or at least take it up, they seldom escape a hearty beating, or something. Grose