The grimmest trick of all was played on an old woman who lived at a place called Hafod Rugog ‘in a wild hollow among the mountains’. There were many fairies in that neighbourhood and they often came to the old lady to borrow one thing and another. Whether she was getting tired of lending all the time we don’t know; she, however, told them one day when they came to borrow again that they could have it if they granted her, first, two wishes ‘that the first thing I touch at the door break, and that the first thing I put my hand on in the house be lengthenend half a yard.’ There was a grip stone (carreg afael) as it is called, in the wall near the door, which was in her way, and she had in the house a piece of flannel for a jerkin which was half a yard too short. She was out apparently when she met the fairies and made her request, for in coming in, as she was nearing the door ‘with her kreel full of turf on her back,’ she unfortunately slipped, and in trying to save herself, put her hand to her knee, which immediately broke. On gaining the house, and forgetting in her pain her second wich, she put her hand to her nose, and lo! it became half a yard longer.’ D. Parry-Jones, Welsh Legends and Fairy Lore, 26