Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies by William Crossing

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Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies is a book by William Crossing, first published in 1890. It gathers local legends, eyewitness anecdotes and traditional lore about the pixies—mischievous, elusive “little people” believed to haunt the tors, lanes and longhouses of Dartmoor. Crossing writes with the deliberate care of a local antiquary: his short chapters preserve dialect, place-names and the kinds of rural superstition that once shaped daily life on the moor, producing a compact portrait of Devonshire folk-belief and landscape. Part field-notes, part storyteller’s anthology, the volume sits comfortably between folklore collection and topographical memoir. Readers interested in English folk traditions, regional mythology, Dartmoor history, or poetic sketches of moorland life will find it rewarding: the book both preserves vanished customs and captures the atmosphere of a wild, weathered place where natural features and imaginative life entwine. It remains a useful source for folklorists, local historians and lovers of rural legend.

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