Breton legendary creatures

thumb|Ankou in La Roche-Maurice, Finistère

thumb|19th-century postcard showing Korrigans. In Breton folklore, a Korrigan () is a fairy or dwarf-like spirit. The word korrigan means in Breton "small-dwarf" (korr means dwarf, ig is a diminutive and the suffix an is a hypocoristic). It is closely related to the Cornish word korrik which means gnome. The name changes according to the place. Among the other names, there are korrig, korred, korrs, kores, couril, crion, goric, kornandon, ozigan, nozigan, teuz, torrigan, viltañs, poulpikan, poulpiquet, and paotred ar sabad.

fairy spirit in Breton mythology

three old washerwomen from Celtic mythology

creature in Welsh and Breton mythology

324x324px|thumb|right|Yan-gant-y-tan in the Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863. Yan-gant-y-tan is the name of a demon from Brittany, France.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. Occultism: Its Theory and Practice, p. 160 (1994)(4 July 1857). Superstitions and Traditions, Household Words