Cornwall is a place rich in myth and legend, and Cornish people are born storytellers.
Mazed is a collection of the traditional tales of Cornwall, retold in ways old and new. Over a hundred and fifty tales from Cornwall are told on this website, each with a map showing the tale's location: you can use the map to go story adventuring.
The tales tell of witches and wreckers on the wild north coast, saints and mermaids in sheltered south, giants on the high moor and everywhere piskeys playing. The piskeys are Cornish fairy folk, sometimes helpful, sometimes full of mischief.
In the past these stories would have been told by wandering droll storytellers, sung in ballad form by balladeers and then told by anyone and everyone round the fire on a cold winter's night.
Mazed celebrates the droll tellers and folklorists who collected tales, and the places where the tales belong.
It breathes new life to old tales, telling them in animations or with illustrations, on the streets and in community settings, with puppets and people, in armchairs and on tricycles, scattering the stories back across Cornwall like the winds stirred by the old storm woman on Bodmin Moor
If you've lost something; your keys, your pen, or your way on the moor...Or, if you've forgotten what you were going to say or what you went upstairs for... you'll have been MAZED BY THE PISKEYS. The only way to cure the piskeys' maze is to TURN YOUR POCKETS INSIDE OUT.
Some of the tales are scary - use the bedtime story button to find tales for small children.
The tales on the Mazed website are there to be retold - tell them and make them your own.