They love humans, taking some for mates. However, pixies are also seen as being malicious tricksters who enjoy playing pranks on people. They may steal humans' belongings, or throw pots and pans after kitchen girls. Pixies are drawn to horses and love to ride them across the moor for pleasure, twisting their manes to spur them on.
They steal the horses or Dartmoor ponies at night and bring them back before dawn, leaving only the tangled ringlets in the manes as evidence. Some pixies are said to steal children or to play their favorite trick - leading humans astray. Sometimes pixies may confuse mortals so thoroughly that they never recover and wander aimlessly through the countryside singing or talking a mysterious language.
This condition is known as being "pixie-led". If one felt the onset of a pixie spell, one could foil a pixie by turning their coat inside-out.
Those who deliberately follow pixies often vanish without a trace. Pixies can be repelled by objects made from silver as contact with the metal can harm them, another trait they share in common with the fairies of the British Isles. Farmers can stay in good terms with pixies by leaving buckets of water out at night for pixie mothers to wash their babies, leaving out a pitcher of milk for them to drink, and keeping the hearth swept clean for pixies to dance on at midnight. Before the mid 19 th Century pixies and fairies were taken seriously in much of Cornwall and Devon.
Books devoted to the homely beliefs of the peasantry are filled with incidents of pixie manifestations. Even within living memory, some rural families left small gifts, such as bowls of food or saucers of milk, for the pixies in order to placate them. There is, perhaps, at present hardly a house they are reputed to visit. Even the fields and lanes which they formerly frequented seem to be nearly forsaken.
Their music is rarely heard. However, in some regions, belief in pixies has endured into contemporary times. During the construction of Hinkley Point nuclear power station, anything that went wrong was blamed on "the Pixy ," with the station being built near Wick's Barrow, an Iron Age burial mound called "Pixies Mound" by the locals.
All of these sightings were from residents of houses in a small street near a meadow. In there was another pixie sighting in Sandy, Bedfordshire. As for me, I hope there are still pixies around, just not the mischievous ones! By Nora Chesson. The steal from bolted linneys , they milk the key at grass, The maids are kissed a-milking, and no one hears them pass.
They flit from byre to stable and ride unbroken foals, They seek out human lovers to win them souls. The Pixies know no sorrow, the Pixies feel no fear, They take no care for harvest or seed time of the year; Age lays no finger on them, the reaper time goes by The Pixies, they who change not, grow old or die. The Pixies though they love us, behold us pass away, And are not sad for flowers they gathered yesterday, To-day has crimson foxglove; if purple hose-in-hose Withered last night, tomorrow will have its rose.
Posted by Julie at AM. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Gracie and Mom. I have a beautiful year-old daughter who lives too far away! A former newspaper reporter, I still consider myself a writer, although I'm not employed as one. On the outside I may seem very ordinary but on the inside I think of myself as fey and whimsical, with mor than a touch of magic and mysticism. I think I see the world with rose-colored glasses. Don't worry - I know what's out there.
Why do you think I put on those glasses? View my complete profile. Feedjit Live Blog Stats. I've gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back, keep me here. Pixies are like tiny elves, standing at barely a foot tall. Your size is Tiny. Your base walking speed is 15 feet. Your flying speed is 30 feet.
Living mostly outdoors without exposure to traditional lighting, you have superior vision in dark or dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light , and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness , only shades of gray. Fey Ancestry. Nature's Child. The children of the Feywild have a natural gift for the outside world.
You are proficient in the Nature skill. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the invisibility spell without needing a material component, choosing yourself as the target. You can cast invisibility this way three times, regaining your uses of the spell after finishing a long rest. Wing Regrowth. If your wings are cut, removed or injured, you regrow them at the end of a long rest. You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Sylvan. Jump to: navigation , search. Views Page Discussion View source History.
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