Anna Eliza Bray returned to Dartmoor folklore in 1854 with this collection of pixie legends written for young readers, drawing on the same country and traditions as her earlier letters to Robert Southey. Published in London by Grant and Griffith in 1854, with illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne.
“Look here, my good fellows," he cried. "I know who you be. You be them two runaways from Princetown, and I'll give you all I've got, clothes and all, if only you won't murder me.”
Also on Our DartmoorCrazywell Pool — A large moorland pool near Princetown, said to be bottomless and an omen of death in local tradition.
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