She differed in being more akin to ordinary women than the true Fairy wife (_Bean shìth_); she was stronger, and as it were more substantial; it was true woman’s work which, as chamber-maid or dairy-maid, she performed. Though her ‘bed’ was near a Fairy dwelling, and she could command the services of the Elves, she did not engage in Fairy employments or recreations. The Fairies punished people of a discontented, grumbling disposition, by taking away the substance of their goods. The Glaistig was also offended at littleness and meanness of mind, but meanness of a different kind. Those who looked down on fools and people of weak intellect, or ill-treated them, she paid off by putting dust or soot in their meat. Akin to this was her punishment of neglect in servants. In some parts of the Highlands the Glaistig is called _Glaisrig_. The name of her young one is _Méilleachan_, a name probably derived from its bleating or whimpering after the old one. It is also called _Isein_, a chicken, and _Gocan_, a little plug. THE GLAISTIG AT GLENDUROR. The being which attached herself to the farm-house of Achindarroch (_Acha-nan-darach, field of oaks_) in Glenduror, Appin, Argyleshire, was variously known as the _Glaistig_ and as the _Gruagach_ of Glenduror. She attended to the cattle, and took particular charge of keeping the calves from the cows at night. She followed the house (not the family), and was alive not many years ago. A portion of milk was poured out for her every evening on a stone called _Clach na Glaistig_ (the Glaistig stone), and once this was neglected by a new tenant, the calves were found next morning with the cows. Her face was described by those who professed to have seen her, as being like a grey stone overgrown with lichens. A servant girl, going on a dark evening to draw water from a stream flowing past the house, was asked by her fellow-servants if she was not afraid of the Glaistig. In her reply she spoke contemptuously of that being, and on her way to the stream received a slap on the cheek that twisted her head to one side. The following evening, going on the same errand, she got a slap on the other cheek that put her head right.[49] THE GLAISTIG AT SRON-CHARMAIG.