A. K. Hamilton Jenkin says that the Piskeys did not confine their unwelcome attentions to man:
About the year 1816 an intelligent farmer, near Lostwithiel, had a pony which he was in the habit of turning out into one of the fields by night. One morning the animal showed signs of being ill. It recovered during the day, but developed the same symptoms during the following night. The farrier was carred in, and pronounced that the pony was 'pisky-ridden'. A watch was accordingly set, and that night 'five little men like apes', the tallest of whom was not more than six inches high, were seen to go into the field and engage in wrestling. The contest was long and, for some time, very equally maintained. At length one of the small men succeeded in throwing each of the others 'a fair throw'. The victor thereupon jumped on to the pony, and began dancing in the most grotesque manner, and singing very obscene songs, whilst the others, howling with wrath and pain, so terrified the poor animal that, in wild affright, it galloped furiously around the field for upwards of an hour, at length falling breathless and exhausted beside a hedge. In consequence of this the pony was afterwards kept in the stable at night, the door being fastened with a green twig of 'scaw', in order to keep out all unnatural intruders. The result was that in a very short time the animal had recovered its normal health.
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