The most usual name for the Welsh fairies, though they are sometimes called Bendith Y Mamau, the Mother's Blessing, in an attempt to avert their kidnapping activities by invoking a euphemistic name for the fairies. There seems no distinction between the types of fairies named. They are fairhaired, love golden hair and hence covet fair-haired human children. They dance and make the fairy rings. Their habitation is under the ground or under the water. The fairy maidens are easily won as wives and will live with human husbands for a time. The danger of visiting them in their own country lies in the miraculous passage of time in Fairyland. They give riches to their favourites, but these gifts vanish if they are spoken of. In fact, they have all the characteristics of the ordinary fairy people.

[Motifs: C433; F233.5]