Queens: C

Coll, Coull, Collen, Coll-widen, Quel-Vezenn, Càlltuinn, Càlldainn, Càllduinn, Cailtin, Colluinn, Colleen (Hazel) Colm, Koulm, Colombe (Dove)
(pron. KOOLM, KOOL-mah) Breton goddess. Her consort is Lanceor and they are buried in the same tomb. In Mallory’s Le Mort d’Arthur she kills herself with his sword and King Mark of Cornwall constructs their tomb. Hazel can take the form of a beautiful green-eyed woman who guards churchyards and can levitate over steeples. cro coull: hazel nut. dhone: brown, brown-haired, hazel, swarthy, dark-skinned In the fifteenth century, a recipe for summoning a fairy involves burying hazel wands: calbh/colba ‘under some hill whereas you suppose fayries haunt’ These hills are called Hollow Hills and are very dangerous. Legend says the Reverend Kirk died at one. They are barrows [beorh “hill”], the site of ancient pre-Christian graveyards. To make hazel wands: wood must be cut when the moon is new, and in a perfect crescent. It should have nine ends or twigs, and be taken from an old hedge. The rod is held in the hand so that two tips are firmly grasped. The stem then points to hidden things. If the point of the forked hazel is held firmly in each hand, and one of the twigs bends to the ground, and then you have found it. The Hazel is the Tree of Knowledge. (6, 71, 73,191)

[French Ministry of Education Site: Centre national de documentation pédagogique]