Engineer folklore

(source: wikipedia: Pixie)

Engineer folklore

During the construction of Hinkley Point nuclear power station, anything that went wrong was blamed on "the Pixy", the station being built near Wick's Barrow, an Iron Age burial mound called "Pixies Mound" by the locals.

After construction was completed, the contractors presented the station manager with a garden gnome, representing the Pixy. On the one occasion the ornament was removed from the station's trophy cabinet, the station was closed down by a freak flood.