In local tradition Margot la fée is not a single individual but a generic name for certain earthly fairies of Brittany and the Mayenne. Sources report that these Margot-type fairies are traditionally regarded as continuing older mythic layers: folk imagination has linked them to the Arthurian figure Morgana (Morgan le Fay) and, before that, to an aspect of the Earth Mother. This lineage is presented tentatively in the source as a folk interpretive scheme rather than a fixed mythic genealogy (source: Wikipedia entry on Margot the fairy).
The available summary does not provide consistent corporeal descriptions. The account records that Margot fairies "can make themselves invisible" and can "metamorphose," and that they may "transform others," implying variable or concealed appearance rather than a single fixed form. No details on clothing, height, or specific anthropomorphic or zoomorphic features are given in the cited source (source: Wikipedia entry on Margot the fairy).
According to the cited summary, Margot fairies are "quite powerful": they can make themselves invisible, metamorphose, and transform others; they are reputed to be excellent dancers; they often possess animals (frequently cattle); they take pleasure in testing humans by giving them gold and objects; and they are believed to have built several monuments and to possess immense treasures hidden under the earth. Their behaviour is morally ambivalent—often generous and sometimes cruel—and their gift-giving is described as a form of testing humans (source: Wikipedia entry on Margot the fairy).
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