children but to stop them, the people used to put the tongs across the cradle or put "fairy thimbles" (i. e. Fox-glove = Lus-mór) under the child's head. Before they'd give a drink to a child at night they'd always dip a burned wisp into the drink or put a burned coal and a grain of salt in some part of the child's clothes. Long ago if a person fell crossing the fields at night the first thing that person did when he came home was to eat a grain of salt to break the fairies' power.Ella DmitrievaThere is supposed to be a ghost seen at that bush, beside the limekiln on Owen Rowley's land beside the road.Matt Smyth