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Based on what has gone before, some may conclude if you want some kind of mystical charm to help Don Fabio's boys in Poland and Ukraine you may be better off wearing a milk bottle top with a lucky Cornish piskie drawn on it in ballpoint pen round your neck next summer.
Wayne Rooney can be England's top player – as long as he isn't picked | Harry Pearson 2011
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Eliza was just about to send her heroine into the webbed cave of a particularly spiteful piskie, when a bird flew to perch in the branch above her and began to sing.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Eliza was just about to send her heroine into the webbed cave of a particularly spiteful piskie, when a bird flew to perch in the branch above her and began to sing.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Eliza was just about to send her heroine into the webbed cave of a particularly spiteful piskie, when a bird flew to perch in the branch above her and began to sing.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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Eliza was just about to send her heroine into the webbed cave of a particularly spiteful piskie, when a bird flew to perch in the branch above her and began to sing.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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The only logical conclusion: I am protected by the Faerie Queen of Northumberland, whose piskie wand will bedevil those what libel me.
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Eliza was just about to send her heroine into the webbed cave of a particularly spiteful piskie, when a bird flew to perch in the branch above her and began to sing.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008
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He indicated a small brass figurine of the Cornish piskie Jan Penalurick that lay on the floor nearby.
Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990
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Each piskie looked very sad, although, instead of being dressed in mourning, each carried a gay wreath or garland of roses or myrtle.
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One of the strangest stories is that of a piskie funeral, seen with his own eyes by a respectable villager ever so many years ago.
corylusavellana commented on the word piskie
See pixie.
December 30, 2008