Chapter Iv. Lough Tor Hole. The Huccaby Courting : Chapter IV Lough Tor Hole. The Huccaby Courting. THE retreats of the pixies at Sheeps Tor and Huccaby Cleave, and their place of rendezvous at New Bridge, having been described, and the kind of actions with which they have been credited made known to us by the people at the farmhouse we have...
Chapter Vii. Nanny Norrish And The Pixies : Chapter VII Nanny Norrish and the Pixies.--The Ploughman's Breakfast.--The Pixy Riders.--Jan Coo. IT has been observed that the pixies will sometimes visit with punishment those who have spoken contemptuously of them, or who have dared to doubt the power they are capable of exercising. And these...
Title Page : TALES OF THE DARTMOOR PIXIES Glimpses Of Elfin Haunts And Antics BY WILLIAM CROSSING [b. 1847 D. 1928] London, Hood [1890] Scanned And Redacted By Phillip Brown. Additional Formatting And Proofing , By John B. Hare. This Text Is In The Public Domain. This File May Be Used For Any Non-commercial...
Chapter Ix. The Lost Path. The Pixies' Revel : Chapter IX The Lost Path.--The Pixies' Revel.--Conclusion. OF all the superstitions connected with the pixies, that, already remarked upon, of wayfarers being liable to be led astray by them, seems to be the one which has longest continued to keep a hold upon the country-people. There are many now...
Untitled : Title Page Preface Chapter I: The Moorland Haunts of the Pixies Chapter II: The Pixies' Trysting Place Chapter III: By the Peat Filled Hearth Chapter IV: Lough Tor Hole. The Huccaby Courting Chapter V: The Pixie at the Ockerry. Jimmy Townsend and his Sister Race Chapter VI: The Ungrateful Farmer...
Chapter Ii. The Pixies' Trysting Place : Chapter II The Pixies' Trysting Place: New Bridge on the Dart HAVING given a brief description of the two more important places traditionally regarded as haunts of the pixies, we shall now proceed to notice a spot which is said to have been formerly much favoured by them as a trysting-place. This...
Preface : Preface [T]HE tales related in the following pages, I have gathered from the peasantry of Dartmoor, and they may be accepted as representative of the class of stories told of the elves of superstition--the pixies. Had my design been simply to have presented the reader with a collection of these, I...
Chapter I. The Moorland Haunts Of The Pixies : Chapter I The Moorland Haunts of the Pixies: Sheeps Tor: Huccaby Cleave AMONG the superstitions of bygone times which still linger in Devonshire, the ideas regarding the pixies are undoubtedly the most interesting and romantic. Although the faith of the peasantry in the ability of these "little...
Chapter V. The Pixie At The Ockerry. Jimmy : Chapter V The Pixie at the Ockerry. Jimmy Townsend and his Sister Race. SOMETIMES we hear of the capture of a pixy, and of its being consigned to a place of security whence it would be imagined impossible for it to escape; but the little prisoner generally contrives to regain its liberty, either...
Chapter Viii. The Borrowed Colts. The Boulder : Chapter VIII The Borrowed Colts.--The Boulder in the Room.--Vickeytoad.--Modilla and Podilla. A STORY is related by Mrs. BRAY in her "Tamar and Tavy" of a "wise woman," who was summoned by a pixy--as it afterwards turned out--to attend his wife, and who was given some ointment wherewith to annoint...
Chapter Iii : Chapter III By the Peat Filled Hearth. WHEN the labours of the day are over, and darkness has fallen upon the moor, the dwellers in the lonely hill-farms gather round the hearth upon which the peat fire is burning, oblivious of the cold without, and the winter winds which are howling over...
Chapter Vi. The Ungrateful Farmer. The Pixy : Chapter VI The Ungrateful Farmer.--The Pixy Threshers.--Rewarding a Pixy. NOTWITHSTANDING the assertion of our acquaintance, Jimmy Townsend, it has been the experience of many, according to the tales related of the pixies, that they have often proved of great benefit to those whom they visited...
