What is "hellawes"

Hellawes is a female name that may refer to:

• Hellawes (sorceress) - A character in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
• Nickname of singer Natalia O'Shea

The sorceress Hellawes is a minor character in Thomas Malory's 15th-century compilation of Arthurian legends Le Morte d'Arthur, a treacherous magician whom Sir Lancelot encounters in his pursuit of a holy sword or cloth (the talisman needed to heal his wounded liegeman, Meliot of Logres).

Hellawes managed to lure the questing knight into her fearsome chapel perilous, but Lancelot—the object of her obsessive and unrequited love—successfully escaped.