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reply posted on 24-3-2004 @ 06:12 PM by panchovilla
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this reminds me more of fairies than pixies if my understanding of the two is correct. but whatever i enjoyed reading this. small mythical beast with wings.

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reply posted on 24-3-2004 @ 06:55 PM by Pisky
Yes, Pixies certainly do exist. But they don't have wings. I have researched them in depth (see the title above my avatar ), and some years ago put up a website concerning them and their and legends. It includes a somewhat concise history of the pixies, which I have traced back to Roman times. (With thanks to KayEm for the animated titles).

I really need to update the site though, since it is rather primitive, and my knowledge of HTML was very limited at that time. Plus I have discovered more historical date linking them even farther back, to the Scythians.

To quite from the site,
Pixy Folk :

The original pixies were the little aboriginal folk who inhabited the barrows and cromlechs, and whose cunning - their only effective weapon against the strength of the Aryan invader - earned them a reputation for magical powers. Over the years these peoples also became linked with the pagan belief in nature sprites, and the two beliefs merged, giving us the pixy we know today. Remains of ancient dwellings, half sunken in the ground give us an idea as to why the pixies were believed to live in the underworld, when you consider that when fully built, they resembled a small hill. When seeing a pixy entering and leaving from the smoke hole in the roof, it is understandable how a passing traveller could mistake them as beings from the underworld. In fact the word "Pixy" is believed to derive from "Pict" - early inhabitants of Scotland who lived in similar dwellings.


reply posted on 24-3-2004 @ 09:06 PM by ZeddicusZulZorander
Some famous (and questionable) fairy photos:


Else Arnhem's photographs of a faery, taken in Germany, summer 1927


The first photograph of the Cottingley fairie series, taken in England July 1917


Dorothy Inman's faery photograph, taken shortly after Cottingley events


A tiny entity clad in knee-length shorts, located in the lower right of the picture taken in La Jolla, Californa, USA.


A photograph of the Little People in Cornwall, England showing a member of a group of witches involved in obtaining the picture.
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