The Gaelic name for fairies, both in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland, as in the Bean Si or the Daoine Sidh.

The principal female fairy, who acts as spokeswoman of the rest in the Life Of Robin Goodfellow. She spcaks for herself and her sister fairies:

To walke nightly, as do the men fayries, we use not; but now and then we goe together, and at good huswives fires we warme and dresse our fayry children. If wee find cleane water and clcane towels, wee leave them money, either in their basons or in their shoocs; but if wee find no cleane water in their houses, we wash our children in their pottage, milke or bcere, or what-ere we finde; for the sluts that leave not such things fitting, wee wash their faces and hands with a gilded child's clout, or els carry them to some river, and ducke them over head and eares. We often use to dwell in some great hill, and from thence we doe lend money to any poore man or woman that hath need; but if they bring it not againe at the day appointed, we doe not only punish them with pinching, but also in their goods, so that they never thrive till they have payd us.

[Motif: F361.17.5]