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In English folklore, a mischievous fairy who will play tricks on travellers, assume various shapes, or even spoil the milk. His name is related to ‘pixie’.

He appears as the servant of the fairy king Oberon in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; he also figures in Goethe's Faust, and is used by the playwrights Michael Drayton and Ben Jonson, among others.



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