{"id":13403,"date":"2015-04-15T17:10:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/?p=13403"},"modified":"2025-03-14T16:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:19:45","slug":"morgan-and-margot-fairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/morgan-and-margot-fairies.html","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Fairies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19128 size-full\" title=\"La f\u00e9e du ch\u00eane, Croquelien, C\u00f4tes d'Armor. Photo Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fee-croquelien-15-avril-2015-stefKervor-EdenSaga-688po.jpg\" alt=\"fee-croquelien-15-avril-2015-stefKervor-EdenSaga-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I live in Brittany, where the fairies are Margot and Morgana, where the elves are Korrigan.<\/p>\n<p>Near Le Gouray in C\u00f4tes d&#8217;Armor, is a magic hill called Mount Croquelien. Covered with\u00a0bonsai trees and rugged rocks, the ancient sanctuary once belonged to the great Broc\u00e9liande or Dark Forest, granite wood\u00a0that covered all of central Brittany. Inland, everyone will tell you, Mont Croquelien is the birthplace of fairy Margot.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Queen Marguerite de Valois was nicknamed La Reine Margot, a nickname popularized thanks to the eponymous theater and the eponymous novel by Alexandre Dumas in the 19th century. Then the Margaux form was popularized in a more recently manner, according the first wine of the same name: Chateau Margaux, whose second element Margaux \u00a0is itself a variant of Margot. Hemingway, a great lover of Ch\u00e2teau Margaux, one of the first to have named his daughter Margaux under the orthographic form&#8221;<\/em> Wikipedia says.<\/p>\n<p>But no\u00a0one\u00a0says Marguerite de Valois was a fairy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14730 size-full\" title=\"Vasque antique, Croquelien, C\u00f4tes d'Armor. Photo Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/croquelien-15-avril-2015-lavabo-688po.jpg\" alt=\"croquelien-15-avril-2015-lavabo-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She\u00a0was kind of\u00a0a witch actually, even if the difference between fairy and witch is often only a figure of speech. Women of great power are fairies, and they are witches as well, depending on the imagination of the passer-by.<\/p>\n<p><em>There are two kinds of fairies. Fairy tales are half-goddesses; they enjoy a supernatural power by right of birth; the fairies of old tales of chivalry have acquired their power to a lesser extent, by the study of magic books.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14722 size-full\" title=\"Les portes, Croquelien, C\u00f4tes d'Armor. Photo Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/croquelien-15-avril-2015-074.jpg\" alt=\"croquelien-15-avril-2015-074\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>It was during this second class belong among other Viviane and Morgana, fairy famous in the fabulous history of the Knights of the Round Table.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Morgana is sister of King Arthus or Arthur, ie the Bear, founder of the secular order. It is presented as an evil fairy who harasses too soft Juniper, wife of Arthur. Viviane, protective jealous of the brave Lancelot was treated better by the old novelists<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14723 size-full\" title=\"Panneau informatif, Croquelien, C\u00f4tes d'Armor. Photo Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/croquelien-panneau-stefKervor-200po.jpg\" alt=\"croquelien-panneau-stefKervor-200po\" width=\"200\" height=\"333\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brittany is a land of fairies. Their home is under the rocks and into the forest. Pixie Hollow is Concoret, on the northern edge of the forest Broc\u00e9liande Paimpont or, on the borders of Morbihan and Ille-et-Vilaine. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Concoret is a name of Breton origin, kon-Jored, meaning Pixie Hollow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Margot Fairyland is located in the countryside away from the coast. One can reach there via Croquelien by a full moon night at the stroke of midnight.<\/p>\n<p><em>A tunnel would open to the depths of the earth. Beware unwary, it is said that Margots do not like human curiosity. However, the village of rocks on top of Mount Croquelien allow us to satisfy our curiosity and learn more about their habits.\u00a0<\/em><em>In good weather, they like to take a bath\u00a0in a granite pool. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Everyone can&#8217;t do! Only obeying their orders, the magical energies of wind and rain\u00a0have carved the rock in the shape of a pool. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Margot fairies are smart enough: their bathtub on Mount Croquelien enjoys magnificent views over the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, 30km away.<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/josemariagilpuchol.blogspot.fr\/2012\/03\/le-mont-croquelien-berceau-des-fees.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(source)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. If you want my opinion, sharp tools have quite helped the magical forces of nature to dig tubs as perfect, and coincidentally just the size of a human body.<\/p>\n<p>The Druids knew how much water is precious Jade, provided they are collected as rain storm, and stay for a whole moon in the open air, in a stone basin only.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20306 size-full\" title=\"Croquelien, ch\u00eane rabougri, arbre \u00e0 f\u00e9es, photo Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/arbre-bourgeons-croquelien-15-avril-2015-688po.jpg\" alt=\"arbre-bourgeons-croquelien-15-avril-2015-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contact with the metal, in particular, could destroy the wonderful virtues of water Jade. Ancient civilizations lightning all had a great mastery of hydraulics for that very reason. Here the sea is far away, yet it remains visible at the bottom of the horizon to remind us that the country Margot is not that of Morgana.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">By confusing them both, Wikipedia shows once again his ignorance: <em>&#8220;Margot or margotines are in the Breton and Welsh traditions, rustic fairies. Excellent dancers, they are usually generous and close to nature. Their name comes likely from a deformation of Morgana, the famous fairy from Arthurian legend, herself derived from Old Irish Muirgen meaning &#8220;born of the sea.&#8221; They were also named &#8220;Morgana&#8221; originally in Lower Brittany&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margot_%28f%C3%A9e%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(source)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You will find further a Breton origin which I find more convincing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"perfect-quotes\"><p>Beware of all, since the matrix is everywhere, but the Resistance is not.<\/p><footer class=\"blockquote-footer\">Muse<\/footer><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14726 size-full\" title=\"La baignoire \u00e0 Margot, Croquelien, C\u00f4tes d'Armor. Photo Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/croquelien-15-avril-2015-baignoire-stefKervor-688po.jpg\" alt=\"croquelien-15-avril-2015-baignoire-stefKervor-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morgana is a distortion of the Breton Morrigan, which is the feminine form of Korrigan. Morrigans are fairies from the shore, spells related to the sea and the waves, and elsewhere related to Ondines.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They are the female counterpart of hazardous Korrigan named <strong>Yann An Aod<\/strong> ie\u00a0<em>Yann of the Coast<\/em>, the sinister dark silhouette evoking sulphurous stories of pirates, also formerly called the Brothers of the Coast. Yes, just like mean Yann.<\/p>\n<p>As for dear\u00a0and proud\u00a0Margot, she\u00a0has nothing to do with sand, waves and kelp. Her\u00a0place is ferns, mosses and scrub oaks.\u00a0Margot is absolutely not a distortion of Morrigan. Margot fairies, native to Croquelien, are purely\u00a0inland fairies, they are the genuine rural and woodland fairies of central Brittany. Now central Brittany was called Argoat, who gave the French argot, ie slang. Argoat, ie inland Brittany woods, opposes Brittany coastline named Armor. Margot or rather Margotte means\u00a0<strong>Ma (m) Argoat<\/strong>, ie <em>Mother Hood<\/em>. Mothers are Margot fairies, just because they were on this planet long\u00a0before humans.<\/p>\n<p>But they are not at all motherly: do not expect\u00a0sweet caress and tender care\u00a0provided.\u00a0If you ever see Margot\u00a0naked in the granite pool, you are likely to feel her\u00a0claws. Protect your eyes, you fool! Rush away, don&#8217;t look\u00a0back !!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14725 size-full\" title=\"Gen\u00eats sans fleurs, Croquelien, C\u00f4tes d'Armor. Photo Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/croquelien-15-avril-2015-ikebana-stefKervor-688.jpg\" alt=\"croquelien-15-avril-2015-ikebana-stefKervor-688\" width=\"688\" height=\"688\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Celtic Wisdom<\/h2>\n<ul id=\"item_2236\" class=\"collapse show\" aria-expanded=\"true\">\n<li><a title=\"Were they elfs ? Gods ? Supermen ? Giants ? The Celts still remember them.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/celtic-mythology-ulster-giants-megalithic-great-goddess-sidh-tuatha-de-danaan.html\">Tuatha De Danaan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"For the mysterious Tuatha, there is another world inside of ours, they called Sidhe\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/tuatha-de-danaan-holy-sidhe-inside-world.html\">The Sidhe Of The Tuatha De Danann<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Lugh was the first king of New Atlantis\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/preceltic-mythologiy-nuada-magtuired-balor-tuatha-lug.html\">Cyclops Lugh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"In search of a Western past that is not only Greek or Latin.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/our-celtic-origin.html\">Our Celtic Origin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Lugh the Son of the Sun was sparkling, his luminescent skin could take an unbearable brilliance\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/mythologie-celtique-lugh-long-arm-strong-head-shining-roaring-sword.html\">The Roaring Sword of Lugh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sometimes here, sometimes there, the spirit incarnates. The 5th century BCE is an exceptional vintage.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/pericles-lug-and-buddha.html\">Pericles, Lug and Buddha<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Gae Bolga the lightning spear is the magical weapon of hero Cuchulainn\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/irish-mythology-cuchulainn-scathach-magician-technological-weapon-gae-bolga.html\">The Magic Weapon of Cuch\u00f9lann<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Britons once fetched in the Auvergne fly agaric mushrooms for vision quests\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/fly-agaric-amanita-muscaria-neolithic-celts.html\">Celtic Drugs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The murder of the only son of Aoifa is one of the pillars of the sacred literature of Ireland.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/irish-mythology-cuchulainn-murdered-his-only-son.html\">Cuch\u00f9lann Killed His Son<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"As he crossed the ocean, Cuchulainn the Tuatha De Danaann could well be Kukulkan the Maya \" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/mythology-tuatha-cuchulainn-maya-kukulkan-quiche-gucumatz.html\">From Cuch\u00f9lann To Kukulkan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Beliefs and practices of Gallic and Celtic Druidesses\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/history-gaul-religion-beliefs-of-druidesses.html\">The Druidesses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Manannan is the sovereign warrior-god of the Sidh - the other Celtic World\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/manannan.html\">Manannan Mac Lir<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The detailed rite of druidic baptism as I happened to relive in Dark Forest\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/the-druidic-baptism.html\">The Druidic Baptism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Magicians, enchanters, teachers, healers, Gallic Druids are still in our dreams\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/celtic-mythology-druidic-universities-3-functions-teachers-priests-doctors-holy-oak-druids.html\">The Druids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Magic! The big word is out. I\u2019m fond of it, but it scares a lot of people.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/magic-illusion.html\">Magic? Illusion?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"There are three categories of beings, says Lewis Trondheim. The living, the dead and the invisible.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/fades.html\">The Fades<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Gauls had many gods, in whom are recognized the former astronauts gods, present in all mythologies\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/the-gaulish-gods-teutates-belenos-lugh-ram-cernunnos-belisama-rhiannon-brigida.html\">The Gaulish Gods<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Celts and the Gauls had their lives punctuated by seven initiations\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/the-seven-initiations-of-the-celts.html\">The Seven Initiations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Carnac, Brittany and Karnak, Egypt: same name, same function, same origin. \" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/carnac-and-karnak.html\">Carnac and Karnak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/war-queen-boadicea.html\">Vercingetorix And Boudica<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Velleda is a Gallic prophetess of the 1st century who spent her life locked in a tower\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/velleda-in-a-tower.html\">Velleda In A Tower<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The ancient Celts used many drugs, some of them so powerful they would kill us right away.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/initiation-celts-gauls-druids-drugs-potions-mushrooms-hydromel.html\">Ancient Potions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Margot Hood and Morgan of the Coast are the two types of Britanny fairies\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/morgan-and-margot-fairies.html\">Brittany Fairies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"In the privacy of Celtic fairies, a magical journey for the heart, body and spirit\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/morrigans-and-korriganes.html\">Morrigan And Korrigan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"King Arthur and Merlin have left many traces in the language and culture of France\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/arthur-and-merlin.html\">Arthur And Merlin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Merlin's laugh is not mocking, sly, or hurtful. It's a seer's laugh.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/merlins-laugh.html\">Merlin&#8217;s Laugh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"As he approached his seventies, Merlin stopped playing the magician for Arthur \" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/viviane-and-merlin.html\">Viviane And Merlin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Percival was a young peasant when he discovered chivalry\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/percival-of-wales.html\">Percival Of Wales<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Doue da bardonou an Anaon! May God forgive the dead!\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/may-god-forgive-dead.html\">May God Forgive The Dead!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The conception of the Britons' other world is unique: the dead and the living are not separated.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/an-anaon-our-dead.html\">An Anaon, Our Dead<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Keugant, the world of gods - Abred, the world of men - Gwenwed, the white world, paradise\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/gwenwed-abred-keugant.html\">Gwenwed The White World<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Like Hinduism, Judaism and others, the religion of ancient Celts came from Atlantis.\" href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/religion-tradition-celtism-druidism-old-religion.html\">The Old Religion Of Druids<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margot Hood and Morgana of the Coast are the two types of Britanny fairies<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2236],"tags":[2374,2375,1769,1776,2371,2373,1755,2368,2372],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13403"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13438,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403\/revisions\/13438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}