St Kew Community Primary School MAZED NORTH
Class 2 at St Kew School heard piskey and fairy tales from the North Cornish coast told by Sue Field with help from the puppet of Nellie Sloggett/Enys Tregarthen, the original collector of the stories.They heard how Bessie Jane saw the fairies in Harlyn Bay with the help of borrowed eyes and ears, Anne Jeffries saw fairies at St Teath, two children helped an enchanted piskey at Polzeath and a king was given a magic wishing spoon at Harlyn Bay. The children made wonderful, colourful Cornishibai illustrations of the two Harlyn Bay stories in a workshop with artist Mark Gregory, who has made a piskey spoon. They gave a Cornishibai performance of both stories at a packed Easter celebration assembly.

Bessie is kind to wise woman Annis

Bessie catches a sea fairy in her net

She lets the fairy go

Bessie puts borrowed eyes and ears on and can see the fairies

The piskeys sing, and Bessie can hear them

The injured animals are on the shore

The sea fairies took the animals to the bottom of the sea to heal them

A carriage drew up. The fairy asked for her eyes and ears back.

Betsy never saw the Fairies or piskeys again, but they still play at Harlyn Bay