Pixie

Pixies are mythical creatures of English folklore, considered to be particularly concentrated in the areas around Devon and Cornwall. In regional dialect, these mischievous little folk are sometimes referred to as piskeys or the little people. They are usually depicted as wingless, with pointed ears, and often wearing a green outfit and pointed hat. Sometimes their eyes are described as being pointed upwards at the Tempel ends.

In modern popular culture

Pixies commonly appear in popular culture. Fantasy books and movies such as The Black Cauldron feature the creatures. In film, their first appearance was in the 1912 film As Others See Us.

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Fantasy - The Black Cauldron - 1912 - As Others See Us

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• In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Gilderoy Lockhart brings a cage of Cornish Pixies to class as part of a lesson. The pixies are small, blue, humanoid creatures which fly without the aid of wings and create havoc when released.
• In Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series, pixies are one of a number of magical species that have been driven underground by humans and the pollution they have caused on earth. Pixies in the novels are the only species that still have their wings. Other species fly using mechanical wings. Chix Verbil the pixie often hits (unsuccessfully) on Holly Short.
• In Holly Black's novel Tithe pixies are green-skinned and slender with butterfly wings.
• Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full of Sky feature a race of fairies named "Pictsies", which are truly Pictish pixies.
• In The Fairly OddParents, the Pixies are dull, wear gray suits, speak in monotone voices, and, unlike the fairies, treat magic like a business. The female pixies are not seen. The Head Pixie (H.P. for short), Mr. Sanderson, and the other male pixies are voiced by Ben Stein.
• In Peter Pan, Tinker Bell is a pixie. She is fiesty and irratable, but very pretty. Her pixie dust gives Peter Pan the ability to fly.
• In the English dub of The Winx Club, the Senior Witches tend to refer to the Althea Fairies as "pixies" frequently, which is presumably disparaging--something akin to calling a black person a "nigger".
• The Monster Rancher video games and anime series feature humanoid pixies that resemble angels and fairies.
• The candy Pixy Stix is named after the species.
• The influential alternative rock band The Pixies is directly named for the creatures.