In his chapter on folklore, Allies tells the story of an old fiddler called Pengree, who about fifty years before Allies wrote was returning one night to Old Storage from a wake held at Knightsford Bridge Inn. His way took him past a place called Hell Garden, at the bottom of Cherry Bank near the Upper House in Alfrick.
In the fiddler's own words as Allies gives them, he said 'Oh, I am come to Hell Garden! Well, I'll give the Devil's Dream.' No sooner had he struck up than about 150 strange female figures came and danced all round him in pattens. He unshouldered his fiddle and took to his heels. Pengree assured Allies's informant, Mr John Pressdee, that it was perfectly true.
Allies is gently sceptical. He says it is not unlikely that the fiddler did see some dancing shadows, and that the spirit called Old Cider had taken full possession of him. He adds that he had been told the same anecdote by others, and compares it with a Flemish account of a fiddler returning from a fair. The place name Hell Garden is one of several Hell Holes and Hell places in the county that Allies catalogues.
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