Les Naines de Micha

The legend
Behind this fairy, half woman and half snake, « vouivre » or Circé, Melusine knows the art of medicinal plants, of metamorphosis and how to cut through the air with her wings. She has learned astrology, she has mastered birds language. She would have erected « megalithes » and built a castle within a night ( Ledignan ). She works by moonlight, before cocksong, and stops completion of the work if a busybody catches her.
She owns a snaketail for every saturday, because she perpetuates the punishment inflicted on Persine, her mother,for having wanted to shut her father away in the magic mountain. She will give birth to 10 sons who were all afflicted with a mark that signs their belonging to the other world. She is maternal, constructor, luminous energy, until the day her husband, Raymondin, breaks the ban and catches her in her bath, naked, and discovers her body ending with a snaketail. She flees through the window, in the shape of winged dragon.
In others fairytales, she is Melorcine, mythical ogress devouring the postulant during initiation, and spiting him out after transformation is accomplished.
Beautiful blond fairy, she was alternately the whole and its opposite, and unites gladly the mortals to be their gardian angel, guide and educator.