Place-names are often the last trace of forgotten folklore, and Allée ès Fées is a good example. In Guernsey, the fairy words turn up at prehistoric tombs and haunted fields. On Alderney the same word survives in the name of a lane on the edge of St Anne, now lined with modern bungalows. Whatever story once explained the name, if there was one, has not been found in any source used here.
The modern story attached to the lane is personal. Ulysses Black, one of the two authors of "Alderney: The Devil's Rock", says that when he was young and staying with Lazarus Ravenscroft, he had an encounter there with a spectre, which the episode title calls the Alderney Strangler. The web page does not describe what he saw or felt. The name suggests something that attacked or choked, but that is not spelled out.
The fairy name is solid, since the street exists on the map. The ghost is a single personal account from an author who openly mixes fact with imagination. The record is tagged to reflect the weaker of the two.
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