Hellawes (sorceress)

Hellawes the sorceress is a character in Thomas Malory's 15th-century Arthurian legend compilation Le Morte d'Arthur.

She is lady of the Castle Nygurmous ("of necromancy"), associated with the chapel perilous episode in one of the quests of Lancelot.

[2] In the story, she manages to lure the questing knight into her fearsome chapel perilous but Lancelot—who has been the object of her obsessive and unrequited love for seven years—successfully escapes with the items he needed to heal Meliot: Lancelot braved the chapel to retrieve a sword and discovered that its terrifying properties were simply illusions.

Hellawes appeared before him and asked him for a kiss in exchange for the sword, but Lancelot refused.

[4] The motif for her enchanted chapel (complete with the name, Chapelle Perilleuse) originates in Perlesvaus.