In local tradition Margot la fée is not a single individual but a generic name for certain earthly fairies of Brittany and the Mayenne. Sources report that these Margot-type fairies are traditionally regarded as continuing older mythic layers: folk imagination has linked them to the Arthurian figure Morgana (Morgan le Fay) and, before that, to an aspect of the Earth Mother. This lineage is presented tentatively in the source as a folk interpretive scheme rather than a fixed mythic genealogy (source: Wikipedia entry on Margot the fairy).
The available summary does not provide consistent corporeal descriptions. The account records that Margot fairies "can make themselves invisible" and can "metamorphose," and that they may "transform others," implying variable or concealed appearance rather than a single fixed form. No details on clothing, height, or specific anthropomorphic or zoomorphic features are given in the cited source (source: Wikipedia entry on Margot the fairy).
According to the cited summary, Margot fairies are "quite powerful": they can make themselves invisible, metamorphose, and transform others; they are reputed to be excellent dancers; they often possess animals (frequently cattle); they take pleasure in testing humans by giving them gold and objects; and they are believed to have built several monuments and to possess immense treasures hidden under the earth. Their behaviour is morally ambivalent—often generous and sometimes cruel—and their gift-giving is described as a form of testing humans (source: Wikipedia entry on Margot the fairy).
Abandinus
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Abarta (Ábartach)
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Abcán (Abhcán)
Abcán (modern spelling Abhcán) is a named dwarf poet and musician of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish myth. He appears in a small number of narratives as a musician whose art has soporific power and as the ferryman who brings the goddess Ruad from the Otherworld to the human world.
Abhean
Abhean is a named poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann in medieval Irish literature, described as a poet in particular of Lugh and recorded as having been killed by Óengus before Midir in a poem by Fland Mainistreach preserved in the Lebor Gabála Érenn.
Abnoba
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Accolon
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Achall
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Achtland
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Acionna
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Adar Llwch Gwin
Legendary large, intelligent birds from Welsh tradition said to understand human speech and obey their master's commands; best known for tearing their master Drudwas ap Tryffin to pieces when bound by a literal order in an Arthurian battle narrative. The term later came to be applied to raptors and metaphorically to brave men in medieval Welsh poetry.
Adar Rhiannon
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Aderyn y Corff
Aderyn y Corff (literally 'bird of the corpse') is a bird-like death-porter in Welsh folklore said to call outside the door of a person about to die. Described as an avian portent that may lack feathers or wings and as existing on another plane when not manifesting, it is treated in Welsh ghost lore and sometimes naturalized as a screech owl in modern accounts.
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