Polperro Cornish Piskey Walking Stick Badge

Polperro Piskey Walking Stick Badge Dispatched from the official ‘Joan the Wad’ and ‘Polperro Piskey Shop’ in Cornwall. Size 40mm (H) x 35mm (W) The Pisky folk according to Couche’s History of Polperro are about a span long, clad in green and wearing straw hats or little green caps on their heads. Two only are known by name, JOAN THE WAD and JACK O LANTERN. The Piskie’s are the cheery wonder workers of Cornwall. their power is incalculable and wherever they abide good luck attends, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch in one of his books described how the maidens go to the well to intercede with the Pisky folk for the name of their true love. The charm is guaranteed dipped in water from the Saint’s well. Do not be misled by spurious imitations.