When a child was to be taken away by the fairies, a ‘stock’ was some times substituted. It was an image of the child, and was made of wood. A man’s child was carried off, and a ‘stock’ left. On discovering what had been done, the father hung it in the ‘crook’ over the fire. In a moment it flew out by the ‘lum.’ He rushed out to look after it, and found his own child lying under the gable of the house. Gregor, Walter ‘Stories of Fairies from Scotland’ The Folk-Lore Journal 1 (1883), 55-58 at 56