Another name for the skriker of Lancashire. As a skriker he is generally invisible, but as a trash he takes the form of a large dog with saucer eyes, shaggy coat and enormous pelt. He is called 'Trash' by the splashy, squelchy sound he makes as he pads along, like someone walking in worn-out shoes, or 'trashes'. He might equally be identified with Padfoot.

[Motifs: E423.i.i(b); G302.3.2]

The name of Habetrot's principal assistant. She was the plainest member of the assembly, for besides her deformed lip she had starting eyes and a long, hooked nose among her defects of the fairies.

Of all the folk fairy tales of Wales, that of the Lake Maidens who married mortals has had the widest distribution and the longest life. There are many sinister fairies in Welsh tradition, but the Welsh water-fairies are not among them. They are beautiful and desirable, but they are not sirens or, nixies. John Rhys devotes a chapter in Celtic Folk-Lore (Chapter I) to 'Undine's Kymric Sisters'.

The best-known and the earliest of the stories about the Gwragen Annwn is the story of the lady of Llyn y Fan Fach, a small and beautiful lake near the Black Mountains.

It happened in the 12th century that a widow with a farm at Blaensawde, near Mydfai, used to send her only son two miles up the valley to graze their cattle on the shores of Llyn y Fan Fach. One day, as he was eating his midday snack, he saw the most beautiful lady he had ever seen, sitting on the surface of the lake combing the curls of her long golden hair with the smooth water as her mirror. He was at once fathoms deep in love, and held out his hands with the bread in them, beseeching her to come to shore. She looked kindly at him, but said, 'Your bread is baked too hard' and plunged into the lake.