Colt pixie
A colt pixie is a creature from English folklore in the South and South West of England. According to local mythology, it is a type of Pixie which takes the form of a scruffy, pale horse or pony to lead travellers and other livestock astray, and is often associated with Puck. The earliest surviving written reference dates to the early 16th century.
The phrase "as ragged as a colt pixie" was common in the New Forest at least as recently as the early 20th century.
In the dialect of Dorset "to colt-pixy" meant to beat down the remaining apples after a crop has been harvested, i.e. to take the colts' horde.- The fossil echini are called colt-pixies' heads
- Cold Pixie's Cave is the name of a barrow in the New Forest, near Lyndhurst
