The most notorious pixie was Le Barboue, or Old Bluebeard, said to wheel a barrow of parsnips angrily around the parishes of St Pierre du Bois and Torteval.

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Barrow boys wheel carts of oranges between rows of bubbling cauldrons and tables piled high with spring rolls, chicken kebabs and coconut jellies.

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