The Legend of the Washerwomen Fairies

Long ago, fairies came to wash their linen in the Romanche River. On the sunny side (adret) lived blonde fairies dressed in white; on the dark side (ubac) lived dark-haired, dark fairies. The blonde fairies often mocked their cousins for being "strange." One day, a blonde fairy insulted the baby of a dark fairy: "Look at this child! Even uglier than its mother!" The mother warned her to stop, but the mockery continued. That evening, when the blonde fairy returned home, she found a dark, slimy creature in her cradle instead of her own rosy baby. The moral remains: respect others, for mockery has unexpected consequences.