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  • To quote Dr. Knapp: "They feared God, honoured the king, and believed in 'piskies' and Holy Wells."

    Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 James Hooper

  • These are what we call pixies in most of England, but in Cornwall, they are called piskies.

    Celtic Fairytales Angie Fox 2010

  • These are what we call pixies in most of England, but in Cornwall, they are called piskies.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Shirley Damsgaard 2010

  • I wanted my fairy characters to be human sized, so I tweaked the existing mythology and made my Cornish piskies tall rather than small.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Shirley Damsgaard 2010

  • I wanted my fairy characters to be human sized, so I tweaked the existing mythology and made my Cornish piskies tall rather than small.

    Celtic Fairytales Angie Fox 2010

  • The princess was just about to follow her faithful maid down into the piskies cave.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • The princess was just about to follow her faithful maid down into the piskies cave.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • The princess was just about to follow her faithful maid down into the piskies cave.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • The princess was just about to follow her faithful maid down into the piskies cave.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • And all in the cause of pasties, piskies, and precipitation in Polperro.

    Cardboard Dreams Peter Ashley 2007

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