The Pixies of Devon and Cornwall

  

The pixies of this part of the country dress in the colours of the earth 

using materials such as moss, grass and lichen. If this camouflage does 

not work they disguise themselves as hedgehogs. Local farmers often 

blame the pixies if any of their livestock go missing as they have been 

spotted in the past going for wild rides on the backs of horses, cattle etc. 

But the farmers are cautious not to offend the pixies and will make them 

welcome in the home, their wives leave out buckets of clean water at night

 so that the pixie mothers can wash their babies.

 Milk is also left out for them and every hearth must be swept so that the 

pixies can have somewhere clean to dance.

Buckland St Mary is the last place where the red clothed faeries were seen

 in Somerset, they were defeated in battle by the pixies so now everywhere 

west of the river Parrett is now pixie land. The red clothed faeries fled to 

Ireland although a few did settle in Devon and Dorset.