Pixie
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Pixies are mythical creatures of English folklore, considered to particularly inhabit the areas around Devon and Cornwall, England. In regional dialect, these mischievous little folk are sometimes referred to as 'piskeys' or 'the little people.' They are usually wingless, with pointed ears, and often wearing a green outfit and pointed hat. Sometimes their eyes are described as being pointed upward at the ends.
Origins
One myth states that pixies were a race of people who were not good enough for Heaven or bad enough for Hell and were therefore forced to remain on Earth forever. Another legend claims that they were Druids who resisted Christianity and were subsequently sentenced by God to grow smaller and smaller until they accepted Christianity.
More recently a theory has developed that they are named after the race of Picts that inhabited Scotland prior to the Celts. It is thought that other mythical folk of the British Isles, such as leprechauns, could be based on this race.
Activities
Pixies often play tricks on people by stealing their belongings or throwing things at them. At night, they steal horses and bring them back before dawn, leaving only tangled manes as evidence of the prank. Some pixies are said to exude pixie dust that is left in their footprints or floating behind them as they fly.
On Dartmoor, in Devon, travellers who became lost on the moor were sometimes said to have been ‘pixie led’ - in other words, deliberately led astray by the little people. If a traveller felt the onset of the pixie spell, he could turn his coat inside-out to confuse them and then escape.
Pixies can also be repelled by objects made from iron or iron ore as contact with the metal is said to harm them, a trait they share in common with other fairies of the British Isles.
Those who deliberately follow pixies often vanish without a trace. For example, a farmhand at Rowbrook, situated on the steep, wooded flanks of the River Dart valley, is said to have been lured down towards the river by mysterious voices, calling his name: ‘Jan Coo.’ He was never seen again.
Even within living memory, some rural families left small gifts, such as bowls of food or saucers of milk, for the pixies in order to placate them. When shown this respect and attention, pixies would sometimes even help the family by tidying up the household during the night.
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. The candy Pixy Stix, made by Willy Wonka, is named after the species. In addition, the influential alternative rock band The Pixies is directly named for the creature.
Tinkerbell
Tinkerbell is probably the most well-known pixie of modern popular culture, though she is often described as a fairy as well. She is Peter Pan's companion in the stories by J.M. Barrie, but she is more commonly associated with her appearance in Disney's Peter Pan [[1]], in which she leaves a trail of magical pixie dust (or fairy dust) wherever she goes. In the 1994 movie Hook, Tinkerbell was played by Julia Roberts, which also featured Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook.
Harry Potter
Template:Spoiler In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Gilderoy Lockhart brings a cage of Cornish Pixies to class and releases them, with the intention of teaching students how to deal with them. It is a disaster, as he can't control them himself. He gets Harry, Ron and Hermione to "nip the rest of them back into their cage" at the end of class.
The Fairly OddParents
In the show The Fairly OddParents pixies are pointy-hatted fairies that treat magic like a buisness and have dull voices. In the upcoming musical FOP special, "School's Out!", they try to rid the world of fun and fairies.They also take on a gangsta rap theme for many of their musical numbers.
The protagonists on this animated series are sometimes refered to as pixies by the villians