Pixie Day is a tradition that takes place in Ottery St. Mary, England, annually on the Saturday nearest Mid-Summer's Day in June.[1] Dating from 1954, and based on a pamphlet written by R. F. Delderfield for the 500th anniversary of the installation of the bells of the Church of St. Mary,[2][3] the event commemorates a legend of Ottery St. Mary's 'pixies' being banished from the town (where they caused havoc) to a local cave known as 'Pixies' Parlour'.
The celebrations begin in the early afternoon when a large fête takes place on the Land of Caanan park. At 6 pm the celebrations focus on Ottery's town square. Hundreds of 'pixies' (made up of local Cubs and Brownies dressed in pixie attire) capture the St. Mary's church bell ringers and drag them from the church to the Land of Canaan, where a reenactment of the pixies' banishment takes place.
^"Events". Ottery St. Mary Tourist Information Centre. 2010. Archived from the original on 20 January 2010.
^The pixies' revenge; or, the threat to the bells of St. Mary's Church, Ottery, RF Delderfield, pub. EJ Manley of Ottery St. Mary, 1954
^Coleridge: a collection of critical essays, ed. Kathleen Coburn, Prentice-Hall, 1967
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