Maibon
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Maibon is a character in Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain series. He is featured in a short story in the collection The Foundling and Other Tales from Prydain.
Maibon is a cottager who lived in the days before Taran's story begins. He frees Doli of the Fair Folk from a fallen tree, and therefore Doli must grant him a wish. Maibon fears growing older, and so he requests on of the legendary Fair Folk stones that can keep him from aging. Doli discourages his choice, but Maibon will not be disuaded. However, when the cottager gets the stone home, he soon discovers that nothing around him will change: his beard doesn't grow, the eggs won't hatch, the field won't sprout, the baby won't teeth, and so on.
Alarmed, Maibon tries to rid himself of the stone, but it only finds its way back. At last, Doli returns and explains to Maibon that he must truly desire to be rid of the stone before it will disappear. The cottager decides firmly that this is what he wishes, and Doli tells him to leave the stone and return home. Maibon has learned to be content with the normal course of human life.....
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