# The Windfairies — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for The Windfairies by Mary De Morgan.

- [The Windfairies](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/the-windfairies.md): The chapter introduces the Windfairies and their magical influence, weaving together themes of nature and enchantment as they interact with the human world.
- [The Windfairies](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/the-windfairies.md): Lucilla, a lonely miller's daughter, meets the windfairies one night and promises never to reveal who taught her to dance. She grows up to be a beautiful dancer, marries a sailor after he proves his strength, and later, 
- [Vain Kesta](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/vain-kesta.md): Kesta, a dairymaid, rejects Adam's proposal to seek a better match. She flirts with the miller, the bailiff, the banker, the General, and finally the Duke, but her deception is exposed when her cheeses fall out of her ba
- [The Pool and the Tree](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/the-pool-and-the-tree.md): A tree and a pool share a deep, loving bond in a wilderness. Travellers uproot the tree to transplant it in a distant garden, causing the pool to mourn. The pool transforms into a cloud, travels across the world, and eve
- [Nanina's Sheep](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/nanina-s-sheep.md): Nanina, a young shepherdess, disobeys her master's warning and ventures to an old palace inhabited by fairies. There, she dances each night with a beautiful fairy shepherd and his black goats, losing her entire flock of 
- [The Gipsy's Cup](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/the-gipsy-s-cup.md): The potter, searching for the gipsy to break the charm, encounters a gipsy man boasting of a cup that will make a beautiful woman love him. Recognizing the cup, the potter seizes it and learns from a traveller about a wo
- [The Story of a Cat](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/the-story-of-a-cat.md): A miserly old gentleman, who loves money above all else, refuses to give alms to a beggar on Christmas. The next day, a beautiful grey cat appears in his home. He plans to sell it at a Cat Show for a high price, especial
- [Dumb Othmar](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/dumb-othmar.md): In a mountain village, the sweetest-voiced youth Othmar is entranced by a dwarf's magical, self-playing instruments. The dwarf's troupe of enchanted musicians, who transform from instruments into human-like dancers, lure
- [The Rain Maiden](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/the-rain-maiden.md): A shepherd and his wife, living in a lonely cottage, are visited by a mysterious woman during a storm who grants them a child on the condition that the mother loves the child above all else. A daughter is born who displa
- [The Ploughman and the Gnome](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_windfairies_se/chapters/the-ploughman-and-the-gnome.md): A poor ploughman discovers a gnome who promises him wealth in exchange for the best of everything in his household. As the ploughman grows rich, he marries a beautiful woman, but the gnome's demands escalate, eventually 

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