Tylwyth Teg

[3] In later sources the tylwyth teg are described as fair-haired and covet golden-haired human children whom they kidnap, leaving changelings (or crimbilion, sing.

[5] As the Bendith y Mamau (the mothers blessing, a Southern Welsh name for fair folk),[1] they ride horses in fairy rades (processions) and visit houses where bowls of milk are customarily put out for them.

A changeling story tells of a woman whose three-year-old son was stolen by the fairies and who was given a threefold instruction by a "cunning man" (magician) on how to get him back.

She removed the top from a raw egg and began stirring the contents, and as the changeling watched her do this certain comments he made established his otherworldly identity.

Their food consists of toadstools and fairy butter (a type of fungus) and they wear digitalis bell flowers as gloves.