Crossword-Solution: NAINS 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Toujours, ces quatre douces têtes Riaient, comme à cet âge on rit, De voir d'affreux géants très bêtes Vaincus par des nains pleins d'esprit.

Bad luck attached itself to the human who chanced to behold the midnight revels of the nains, and if he entered the charmed circle and danced along with them his death was certain to ensue before the year was out.

Wednesday was the nains' high-day, or rather night, and their great _nuit festale_ was the first Wednesday in May.

But although the nains while away their time in such simple fashion as dancing to the repetition of the names of the days of the week, they have a less innocent side to their characters, for they are forgers of false money, which they fabricate in the recesses of caverns.

The nains are also regarded as the originators of a cabalistic alphabet, the letters of which are engraved on several of the megalithic monuments of Morbihan, and especially those of Gavr'inis.