The tempestiaires are present in many mythologies. In its most general direction, this term indicates beings having the capacity to control the weather by making use of the Magie. The first tempestiaires of the history were gods, like Tlaloc, the god of the rain and the Aztec vegetation, who could choose to send the rain, the lightning, the famine, the disease, or the dryness with the human ones. One thereafter allotted to capacities of tempestiaires to various animals like the white eagle and the Corbeau. Then, with the the Middle Ages, one suspecté the Sorcières, but also certain dwarf kinds of and Géants to bewitch the sky to cause frosts and storms, and thus to waste harvests From time immemorial, they were venerated, feared, to see hate because of the important influence which they had on the Agriculture thanks to their capacity. One tells in certain accounts which they would have gone until being exiled in the clouds to escape the revenge on the peasants that they would have ruined.