Along the Rance the inhabitants tell about _fées_ who appear during storms. These storm-fairies are dressed in the colours of the rainbow, and pass along following a most beautiful _fée_ who is mounted in a boat made from a nautilus of the southern seas. And the boat is drawn by two sea-crabs. In no other place in Brittany are similar _fées_ said to exist.[89] In Upper Brittany, as in Lower Brittany, the _fées_ generally had their abodes in tumuli, in dolmens, in forests, in waste lands where there are great rocks, or about menhirs; and many other kinds of spirits lived in the sea and troubled sailors and fisher-folk. Like all fairy-folk of Celtic countries, those of Upper Brittany were given to stealing children. Thus at Dinard not long ago there was a woman more than thirty years old who was no bigger than a girl of ten, and it was said she was a fairy changeling.[90] In Lower Brittany the _taking_ of children was often attributed to dwarfs rather than to _fées_, though the method of making the changeling speak is the same as in Upper Brittany, namely, to place in such a manner before an open fire a number of eggshells filled with water that they appear to the changeling--who is placed where he can well observe all the proceedings--like so many small pots of cooking food; whereupon, being greatly astonished at the unusual sight, he forgets himself and speaks for the first time, thus betraying his demon nature. The following midwife story, as told by J. M. Comault, of Gouray, in 1881, is quite a parallel to the one we have recorded (on p. 54) as coming from Grange, Ireland:--A midwife who delivered a _Margot la fée_ carelessly allowed some of the fairy ointment to get on one of her own eyes. The eye at once became clairvoyant, so that she beheld the _fées_ in their true nature. And, quite like a midwife in a similar story about the _fées des houles_, this midwife happened to see a _fée_ in the act of stealing, and spoke to her. Thereupon the _fée_ asked the midwife with which eye she beheld her, and when the midwife indicated which one it was, the _fée_ pulled it out.[91] Generally, like their relatives in insular Celtdom, the fairies of Upper Brittany could assume various forms, and could even transform the human body; and they were given to playing tricks on mortals, and always to taking revenge on them if ill-treated. In most ways they were like other races of fairies, Celtic and non-Celtic, though very much anthropomorphosed in their nature by the peasant and mariner. As a rule, the _fées_ of Upper Brittany are described in legend as young and very beautiful. Some, however, appear to be centuries old, with teeth as long as a human hand, and with backs covered with seaweeds, and mussels, or other marine growths, as an indication of their great age.[92] At Saint-Cast they are said to be dressed (like the _corrigans_ at Carnac, see p. 208) in _toile_, a kind of heavy linen cloth.[92]