I can’t believe Friday was Faerie Friday and Halloween, and I’m just founding out about Nicneven being a fairy queen and a witch goddess a week later!

Though many Faerie queens appear across various different texts and mythologies, none is quite so dark as the character of Nicnevin. The name most likely comes from the Scottish surname 'Neachneohain' meaning
"daughters of the divine" or "daughters of Scathach." It is perhaps unsurprising, then, to learn that this being is the Queen of the Faeries from Scottish folklore, otherwise known as the Witch Goddess of Samhain.
Another name used for the figure in other places, specifically Fife, was Gyre-Carling.