On the sea-coast of Upper Brittany the popular opinion is that the _fées_ are a fallen race condemned to an earthly exile for a certain period. In the region of the Mené, canton of Collinée, the old folk say that, after the angels revolted, those left in paradise were divided into two parts: those who fought on the side of God and those who remained neutral. These last, already half-fallen, were sent to the earth for a time, and became the _fées_.[92] The general belief in the interior of Brittany is that the _fées_ once existed, but that they disappeared as their country was changed by modern conditions. In the region of the Mené and of Ercé (Ille-et-Vilaine) it is said that for more than a century there have been no _fées_; and on the sea-coast, where it is still firmly believed that the _fées_ used to live in the billows or amid certain grottoes in the cliffs against which the billows broke, the opinion is that they disappeared at the beginning of the last century. The oldest Bretons say that their parents or grandparents often spoke about having seen _fées_, but very rarely do they say that they themselves have seen _fées_. M. Sébillot found only two who had. One was an old needle-woman of Saint-Cast, who had such fear of _fées_ that if she was on her way to do some sewing in the country, and it was night, she always took a long circuitous route to avoid passing near a field known as the _Couvent des Fées_. The other was Marie Chéhu, a woman eighty-eight years old.[93] THE _CORRIGAN_ RACE[94] It is the _corrigan_ race, however, which, more than _fées_ or fairies, forms a large part of the invisible inhabitants of Brittany; and this race of _corrigans_ and _nains_ (dwarfs) may be made to include many kinds of _lutins_, or as they are often called by the peasant, _follets_ or _esprits follets_ (playful elves). Though the peasants both in Upper and in Lower Brittany may have no strong faith in _fées_, most of them say that _corrigans_, or _nains_, and mischievous house-haunting spirits still exist. But in a few localities, as M. Sébillot discovered, there is an opinion that the _lutins_ departed with the _fées_, and with them will return in this century, because during each century with an odd number like 1900, the fairy tribes of all kinds are said to be visible or to reappear among men, and to become invisible or to disappear during each century with an even number like 1800. So this is the visible century.