_'Fées' of Lower Brittany._--Throughout the Morbihan and Finistère, I found that stories about _fées_ are much less common than about _corrigans_, and in some localities extremely rare; but the ones I have been fortunate enough to collect are much the same in character as those gathered in the Côtes-du-Nord by Luzel, and elsewhere by other collectors. Those I here record were told to me at Carnac during the summer of 1909; the first one by M. Yvonne Daniel, a native of the Île de Croix (off the coast north-west of Carnac); and the others by M. Goulven Le Scour.[77] 'The little Île de Croix was especially famous for its old _fées_; and the following legend is still believed by its oldest inhabitants:--"An aged man who had suffered long from leprosy was certain to die within a short time, when a woman bent double with age entered his house. She asked from what malady he suffered, and on being informed began to say prayers. Then she breathed upon the sores of the leper, and almost suddenly disappeared: the _fée_ had cured him."' 'It is certain that about fifty years ago the people in Finistère still believed in _fées_. It was thought that the _fées_ were spirits who came to predict some unexpected event in the family. They came especially to console orphans who had very unkind step-mothers. In their youth, Tanguy du Chatel and his sister Eudes were protected by a _fée_ against the misfortune which pursued them; the history of Brittany says so. In Léon it is said that the _fées_ served to guide unfortunate people, consoling them with the promise of a happy and victorious future. In the Cornouailles, on the contrary, it is said that the _fées_ were very evilly disposed, that they were demons. 'My grandmother, Marie Le Bras, had related to me that one evening an old _fée_ arrived in my village, Kerouledic (Finistère), and asked for hospitality. It was about the year 1830. The _fée_ was received; and before going to bed she predicted that the little daughter whom the mother was dressing in night-clothes would be found dead in the cradle the next day. This prediction was only laughed at; but in the morning the little one was dead in her cradle, her eyes raised toward Heaven. The _fée_, who had slept in the stable, was gone.' In these last three accounts, by M. Le Scour, we observe three quite different ideas concerning the Breton fairies or _fées_: in Finistère and in Léon the _fées_ are regarded as good protecting spirits, almost like ancestral spirits, which originally they may have been; in the Cornouailles they are evil spirits; while in the third account, about the old _fée_--and in the legend of the leper cured by a _fée_--the _fées_ are rationalized, as in Luzel's tale quoted above, into sorceresses or _Grac'hed Coz_.