The Castel church, Ste Marie du Castel, stands on a site that tradition said had once held the stronghold of "Le Grand Geffroi", a Norse raider remembered as Le Grand Sarrazin. MacCulloch noted that masses of old masonry turned up whenever graves were dug. The fairies' objection, though, was to the first site chosen, a field called Les Tuzés elsewhere in the parish. Each night they came, gathered up the builders' stones and tools in their fine aprons, and carried them to where the church now stands. After the third time, the builders built where the fairies wanted.
MacCulloch thought the names Déhus, Déhusets and Tuzés were related, and followed Métivier in reading them as names for the spirits of the dead and goblins. He called Les Tuzés "the haunted field". The fairies at the Castel, in other words, may have been the same beings who were said to haunt the great Déhus tomb in the Vale.
A second mystery lay inside the church. During reseating works in 1878 builders found a mass of granite shaped like a mummy case and carved as a woman, buried face down in the chancel, its face deliberately hammered away. It matched the statue-menhir in St Martin's churchyard known as La Gran'mère du Chimquière. MacCulloch thought the Castel figure had been "defaced and buried in the earth to put a stop to the adoration paid to it". The statue is now displayed in the churchyard. The map point is at the church.
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