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pixie; A Peep at the Pixies

pixie; A Peep at the Pixies

A pixie illustration by W. Measom from the 1853 edition of A Peep at the Pixies...

Courtesy of the Folklore Society Library, University College, London; photograph, R.B. Fleming

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