In the island of Pabbay, Harris, an old woman and her daughter were cutting corn in the field. The daughter had a young son, and there being none with whom the child could be left at home, she brought it out with her to the field, and placed it on the soft grass at the side of the corn rig. It had not been there long till it commenced to cry and whine. The mother was going over to it when the grandmother stopped her, saying that it was not her own child-that she had seen the Fairies take it away, and that they had left an old man Fairy in its stead. The child continued crying, the mother and grandmother taking no notice. At length the old woman (who possessed the faculty of second sight) saw the Fairies returning with the abducted child, and after removing the old man, placed it in its original position. The old man ceased crying as soon as his own people took him away, and the child sat quite still. The mother wondered that the child ceased crying so suddenly and that without any inducement, when the grand-mother told her it was the old man who cried all the time, and that the crying ceased only when the other Fairies took him away. In order that they should not attempt to steal the child a second time, the old woman made her daughter tie an iron button which she had round the child’s neck. The old woman was a native of St. Kilda. Anon ‘Fairy Tales’, The Celtic Review 5 (1908), 155-171 at 161-162