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(German mythology) An ambivalent, sometimes vindictive, spirit that is capable of materialising as an object or human, often a child; a sprite.
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* 2009 , Robert Grant Haliburton, The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas: Collected Papers on the Curious Anthropology of Robert Grant Haliburton ,
(German folklore) A mischievous elf or goblin, or one connected (and helpful) to a family or household.
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* 1977 , James Buchanan Given, Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England , 2007,
* 2011 , William Wirt Sikes, Varla Ventura, The Occult Powers of Goats and Other Welsh Tales of Goblins, Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves ,
(fantasy literature) One of a diminutive and usually malevolent race of beings.
* 2005 , Scott Elliot Hicks, The Shattering Light of Stars ,
(mythology) A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.
(figuratively) A brutish man whose behavior resembles that of the mythical ogre.
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(en noun)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.'
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- 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 .
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- The king had seen all kinds of gnomes, goblins, and kobolds at his coronation;.
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- 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.
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- In Germany also the kobolds are rather troublesome than otherwise, to the miners, taking pleasure in frustrating their objects, and rendering their toil unfruitful.
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- 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.