There lives in the village of Mangusta, Uig, an impotent person, believed by certain old women to be a Fairy. He is upwards of thirty years of age and as powerless as an infant a few days old. He is quite incapable of changing the position in which he is placed in bed-cannot extend his hand to his mouth-he cannot even masticate his food. He is a mere skeleton, his legs and arms are as thin as a walking-stick but as long as those of an ordinary man. The man looks much older than he really is. His forehead recedes very much. He has no beard, but a few long white hairs on his chin, and is deaf but not dumb. During the first few months of his childhood he was as plump and healthy as any child in the place-the change was sudden-hence the superstitious belief about him. Anon ‘Fairy Tales’, The Celtic Review 5 (1908), 155-171 at 163