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

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

Jack teams up with a team of elves, fairies, pixies and sprites to infiltrate the bowels of the wicked great tree of life for a final confrontation with the devilish Lord.

From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2021

"It's scarcely worth having a name for. I don't have a name for not believing in pixies."

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2019

More pixies burst from the crevices, and they all danced on the gold, twittering and screeching, “Gold, gold, gold!”

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