Chinese Ghouls and Goblins (England 1928). Goblins are Featured in the French fairy tale called The Golden Branch. Goblins are featured in the Swedish fairy tales The Four big Trolls and little Peter Pastureman, and Dag, and Daga and the Flying Troll of Sky Mountain where they alongside sprites and gnomes live among trolls. Goblins are featured in the Norwegian folktale The Christmas Visitors at Kvame. Goblins are featured in the Danish fairy tales: The Elf Mound, The Goblin and the Grocer, and The Goblin and the Woman. "The Goblins Turned to Stone" (Dutch fairy tale). "The Goblins at the Bath House" (Estonia), from A Book of Ghosts and Goblins (1969). The Benevolent Goblin, from Gesta Romanorum (England). "The Goblin Pony", from The Grey Fairy Book (French fairy tale). Goblins in fiction Collected folk stories Goblins have at times been conflated with the jinn, specifically ifrit and ghilan, of Islamic culture. Other Goblins had been identified with creatures from another culture: In Bangladesh, Santal people believe in gudrobonga which is very similar to goblins. Tokoloshe movies are quite common in South Africa such as The Tokoloshe (2018), Tokoloshe: An African Curse (2020) It is (allegedly) mostly nocturnal and friendly to children but can be harmful to adults if under the influence of evil witches. The tokoloshe (or tikoloshe or tikoloshi) in South African mythology is a humanoid creature about 1 m tall, with a large head, big eyes and a slender torso. In South Africa Tokoloshe/Tikoloshe is a dwarf-like creatures similar to a goblin. In South Korea, goblins, known as dokkaebi (도깨비), are important creatures in folklore, where they reward good people and punish the evil, playing tricks on them. Twenty-Two Goblins (Indian fairy tale). The Goblin Rat, from The Boy Who Drew Cats (Japanese fairy tale). The Goblin of Adachigahara (Japanese fairy tale). Many Asian mythical creatures have been likened to, or translated as, goblins. The Muki is a pale goblin who lives in caves in the Andes in Quechuan folklore. A pukwudgie is a type of goblin from Wamponoag folklore. The Trasgu is a Northern Spanish and Northern Portuguese mythological creature of Celtic and Roman origin. The Erlking is a malevolent goblin from German legend. Hobgoblins are friendly trickster goblins from English, Scottish, and Pilgrim folklore and literature. A redcap is a type of goblin who dyes its hat in human blood in Anglo-Scottish border folklore. Goblins are common in English, Scottish, and Irish folklore, serving as a blanket term for all sorts of evil or mischievous spirits. 
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1920 European folklore The Welsh coblyn, a type of knocker, derives from the Old French gobelin via the English goblin. Moreover, these proper names are not from Normandy, where the word gobelin, gobelinus first appears in the old documents. Norman surnames Beuzelin, Gosselin, Étancelin, etc.) Īlternatively, it may be a diminutive or other derivative of the French proper name Gobel, more often Gobeau, diminutive forms Gobelet, Goblin, Goblot, but their signification is probably "somebody who sells tumblers or beakers or cups". Norman gobe "hollow in a cliff", with simple suffix -lin or double suffixation -el-in (cf. English cove "hollow in a rock", English "sheltered recess on a coast", Old Norse kofi "hut, shed" ) which means originally a "hollow in the earth". German Kobold contains the Germanic root kov- (Middle German Kobe "refuge, cavity", "hollow in a rock", Dial. It may be related both to German kobold and to Medieval Latin cabalus - or *gobalus, itself from Greek κόβαλος ( kobalos), "rogue", "knave", "imp", "goblin".
Įnglish goblin is first recorded in the 14th century and is probably from unattested Anglo-Norman *gobelin, similar to Old French gobelin, already attested around 1195 in Ambroise of Normandy's Guerre sainte, and to Medieval Latin gobelinus in Orderic Vitalis before 1141, which was the name of a devil or daemon haunting the country around Évreux, Normandy. The term goblette has been used to refer to female goblins. 2.2 Goblin-like creatures in other culturesĪlternative spellings include gobblin, gobeline, gobling, goblyn, goblino, and gobbelin.
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