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As nouns the difference between kobold and lizardfolk

is that kobold is an ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite while lizardfolk is a type of intelligent anthropomorphic creatures akin (or created from) lizards; lizardmen.

kobold

English

(wikipedia kobold)

Alternative forms

* cobold

Noun

(en noun)
  • (German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.
  • * 1904 , , page 176,
    • At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying : 'Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.'
  • * 2009 , Robert Grant Haliburton, The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas: Collected Papers on the Curious Anthropology of Robert Grant Haliburton , page 75,
    • Movers, in the first chapter of his Phönizier, says that that group of deities called Dactyls, Cabiri, Corybantes, and Cyclopes, were similar to those old Germanic divinities now known as Kobolds .
  • (German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.
  • * '', 2000 [1980], ''The Golden Key and Other Stories , page 96,
    • The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation;.
  • * 1977 , James Buchanan Given, Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England , 2007, page 138,
    • Among the nonhuman creatures that peopled rural Europe in the Middle Ages — the fairies, elves, dwarfs, trolls, and kobolds — there were beneficent female spirits who patronized those households that treated them well.
  • * 2011 , William Wirt Sikes, Varla Ventura, The Occult Powers of Goats and Other Welsh Tales of Goblins, Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves , unnumbered page,
    • In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful.
  • (fantasy literature) One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings.
  • * 2005 , Scott Elliot Hicks, The Shattering Light of Stars , page 62,
    • There were also various trolls like great smiling badgers, brownies darting about laughing, dwarves with large gray heads, sensuous mermaids, stony kobolds , green gnomes, sirens and many elves, who were busy purifying the sacred hilltop in a mythological cooperation marvelous to the soul's perception.

    See also

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    lizardfolk

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A type of intelligent anthropomorphic creatures akin (or created from) lizards; lizardmen.
  • * 1988 , David Drake, The Sea Hag , Baen Books (ISBN 9780671654245)
    • The guard beasts were intended to keep the dangers of the jungle out of Emath—the tribes of scaly lizardfolk...
  • * 2011 , James Wyatt, Oath of Vigilance: A Dungeons & Dragons Novel , Wizards of the Coast (ISBN 9780786959327)
    • Shara&
  • 39;s blade cut the creature's flank, then the demon leaped over the terrified lizardfolk and vanished in a rising cloud of mist. “Quarhaun!” Shara called. “Bring Kssansk to look at this!”
  • * 2011 , Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval: The Book of Loss , AuthorHouse (ISBN 9781452005980), page 260
    • Several groups of dead sand lizardfolk were scattered across their path. Sand lizardfolk, or salamanders, were the desert cousins to the normal lizardman or lizardfolk.
  • * 2012 , Elizabeth Bear, Range of Ghosts , Macmillan (ISBN 9781429986489)
    • “These are the lizardfolk!” They did not look like lizards, but Temur, too, had heard of the tribes to the west who rode under the banners of dragons and wore their hide as armor.