_Transformation Power of 'Fées'._--At Kerallan, near Carnac, this is
what Madame Louise Le Rouzic said about the transformation power of
_fées_:--'It is said that the _fées_ of the region when insulted
sometimes changed men into beasts or into stones.'[80]
_Other Breton Fairies._--Besides the various types of _fées_ already
described, we find in Luzel's collected stories a few other types of
fairy-like beings: in _Les Compagnons_ (The Companions),[81] the _fée_
is a magpie in a forest near Rennes--just as in other Celtic lands,
fairies likewise often appear as birds (see our study, pp. 302 ff.); in
_La Princesse de l'Étoile Brillante_ (The Princess of the Brilliant
Star),[81] a princess under the form of a duck plays the part of a fairy
(cf. how fairy women took the form of water-fowls in the tale entitled
the _Sick Bed of Cuchulainn_ (see our study, p. 345); in _Pipi Menou et
les Femmes Volantes_ (Pipi Menou and the Flying Women),[81] there are
fairy women as swan-maidens; and then there are yet to be mentioned _Les
Morgans de l'île d'Ouessant_ (The _Morgans_ of the Isle of Ushant), who
live under the sea in rare palaces where mortals whom they love and
marry are able to exist with them. In some legends of the _Morgans_,
like one recorded by Luzel, the men and women of this water-fairy race,
or the _Morgans_ and _Morganezed_, seem like anthropomorphosed survivals
of ancient sea-divinities, such, for example, as the sea-god called
_Shony_, to whom the people of Lewis, Western Hebrides, still pour
libations that he may send in sea-weed, and the sea-god to whom
anciently the people of Iona poured libations.[82]
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