tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268906151061835777.post6364161456778186982..comments2024-03-09T03:38:15.941+00:00Comments on The Faery Folklorist: Sheeps Tor Piskies Cave, DartmoorThe Faery Folkloristhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04487251751662049629noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268906151061835777.post-91719491557959789732021-07-31T23:32:21.049+01:002021-07-31T23:32:21.049+01:00It is possible that the entrance clogged from fall...It is possible that the entrance clogged from falling boulders. It's a natural phenomenon common at caves, especially at rocky sitesVagianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268906151061835777.post-70261312419913427892011-10-03T22:11:24.949+01:002011-10-03T22:11:24.949+01:00Thanks, will have to look up Lazy Molly, lovely st...Thanks, will have to look up Lazy Molly, lovely story and sounds like a good moral tale for kids :) Very intriguing about the magic herb, wish these tales would describe it further so we could know which herb it refers to! Pixies Cave was definitely smaller looking than I expected, though other peoples photos show it as looking quite large inside and comfy enough to sit in... just first you've got to be able to squeeze through the tiny gap unfortunately! :(The Faery Folkloristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04487251751662049629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268906151061835777.post-26449308451335147632011-10-03T22:07:45.373+01:002011-10-03T22:07:45.373+01:00Your first bit about Oberon and the magic herb rem...Your first bit about Oberon and the magic herb reminded me of the story of Lazy Molly from Tavistock - worth a read if you can find it online. The version I have read (in "Legends and Folklore of Devonshire by Cecily M Rutley) Has "Lazy Molly' made lame for forgetting to fead the pixies, and not getting up when they complained. She was then told about a mysterious herb on top of Dartmoor. Later her finds it and is cured (and gains more respect for the pixies) but the reader is left not knowing what the magic herb was! Pixies Cave looks pretty pokey - perhaps there is a glamor over it....Enthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07105812373247325370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268906151061835777.post-9189836522722718492011-09-29T12:16:24.436+01:002011-09-29T12:16:24.436+01:00Hi Tim! Pleased to meet you, your wonderful websit...Hi Tim! Pleased to meet you, your wonderful website proved very helpful in my research. Thanks for setting me straight on the Cairn suggestion. Have you ever seen any vintage photos of the cave? Would be very intrigued to see how it's changed over the years. but haven't managed to find any older photos. Also, heard of anything strange going on over at Sheepstor? Probably just foxes etc, but found remains of a dead sheep in a cave under a rock and remains of another sheep scattered on the moors. Looked very creepy indeed, lets hope the pixies haven't turned carnivore! :PThe Faery Folkloristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04487251751662049629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268906151061835777.post-63889982718270509592011-09-29T06:50:46.769+01:002011-09-29T06:50:46.769+01:00Sadly the Piskies cave is not a prehistoric cairn ...Sadly the Piskies cave is not a prehistoric cairn but a natural formation. The Dartmoor cairns are usually on more prominent sites and are built with smaller rocks.<br />Tim Sandles<br />Legendary DartmoorDartmoorlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01386553927597880069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268906151061835777.post-41998722495433938772011-09-27T10:38:27.601+01:002011-09-27T10:38:27.601+01:00It's hard to know what the inside looks like e...It's hard to know what the inside looks like exactly without going in there, from the entrance it looks more like a naturally formed cave from all the boulders that have fallen from the top of the tor and the ones buried in the sides of the hill, but there's no way of really knowing if the present known cave is the same one talked about a couple of hundred years ago in books. The whole tor is covered in boulders and rocks, so could easily have been antoher cave thats since been covered over by more recently fallen boulders. Sure I read somewhere that the cave entrance was originally larger but a cave in has blocked it up since. Plenty of Cairns on Dartmoor for sure, so could be one underneath there somewhere that originally started the stories off, as yup it does seem to be common that old buriel cairns get a bit of a reputation as fairy haunts! :)The Faery Folkloristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04487251751662049629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268906151061835777.post-90141323039713841452011-09-27T10:25:44.794+01:002011-09-27T10:25:44.794+01:00Very interesting - is the cave natural or do you t...Very interesting - is the cave natural or do you think it's some sort of collapsed cairn? A lot of faery stories seem to be connected to the latter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com