pixies

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Dominic: It’s a little like when Professor Lockhart released that swarm of Cornish pixies in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”: They’re everywhere and constantly in your face.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

There are bullies, a sly villain, a kidnapping, Irish pixies, a West African protector-spider and classes in Marvellian history, chants and elixirs.

From Washington Post • May 18, 2022

The work is dizzying, requiring you to constantly look down at your feet and then back at the trees, straining to find creatures that feel as mythical as pixies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2022

The Moors are a wondrous, lush world bursting with glowing flowers, fairies, ogres, pixies and talking tree giants.

From Washington Times • Jan. 14, 2020

“Gold! Gold! Gold!” the pixies sang in response.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff