This is, as its name would lead one to suppose, a favourite haunt of the fairies, or perhaps, to speak more correctly, their usual dwelling place. It is related that a man who happened to be lying on the grass near it, heard a voice within calling out: “_La païlle, la païlle, le fouar est caûd_.” (The shovel,[58] the oven is hot). To which the answer was immediately returned: “_Bon! J’airon de la gâche bientôt_.” (Good! We shall have some cake presently.) Another version from Mrs. Savidan is that some men were ploughing in a field belonging to Mr. Le Cheminant, just below the Cromlech, when the voice was heard saying “_La paille_,” _etc._ One of them answered, “_Bon! J’airon de la gâche_,” and almost immediately afterwards a cake, quite hot, fell into one of the furrows. One of the men immediately ran forward and seized it, exclaiming that he would have a piece to take home to his wife, but on stooping to take it up he received such a buffet on the head as stretched him at full length on the ground. It is from here that the fairies issue on the night of the full moon to dance on Mont Saint till daybreak.[59] [57] See _Archæological Journal_, Vol. I., p. 202, for an engraving of this Castiau-Roc. [58] EDITOR’S NOTE.--“La païlle à four, is, in the country, usually a wooden shovel with a long handle. It is used for putting things in the oven when hot, and taking them out when baked.” [59] EDITOR’S NOTE.--This is still believed, for in 1896, when my aunt, Mrs. Curtis, bought some land on Mont Saint, and built a house there, the country people told her that it was very unlucky to go there and disturb the fairy people in the spot where they dance. My cousin, Miss Le Pelley, writes in 1896 from St. Pierre-du-Bois, saying “The people still believe the Creux des Fées and ‘Le Trepied’ to have been the fairies’ houses, and as proof one woman told me that when they dug down they found all kinds of pots and pans and china things.” “LA LONGUE ROQUE” OR “PALETTE ES FAÏES.”