![]() ![]() Hobhole Hob lived in a cave and cured whooping cough. Hob: Benevolent, mischievous elves - also a generic term which played into many other names like Hobany, Hobbe, Hobby, Hobredy, or Hobgoblin. So called because they limp when they dance – from “henk,” limp. Henkies : Fairies or trolls from the Shetland and Orkney Islands. "Puny dwarves." Similar Welsh terms are gwion and gwyll. As described by James Bowker, they wear elaborate costumes of butterfly and beetle wings, and are very similar to the sophisticated miniature fairies seen in the poetry of Michael Drayton and William Browne. Greenies: tiny fairies of Lancashire, England. Also known as the tiddy people, yarthkins, or simply strangers. Greencoaties: fairies of Lincolnshire Fen. It might be related to the German kobold. The Old French gobelin is recorded around 1195, and Latin gobelinus before 1141. The English word goblin existed as early as the 14th century. Goblins: mischievous monsters, usually of small size. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. New Age writer Edain McCoy somehow split this into two creatures - the "love-talker" and a kind of sooty hearth-fairy. ![]() Ganconer (gancanagh, geancanach): an Irish fairy similar to the leprechaun, who smokes a pipe and seduces women. 'Feeorin' was originally a dialect term for "frightening, things that frighten." Bowker mentions "boggart, witch, and feeorin stories." In his story of the "Fairy Funeral," two men observe a group of tiny fairies in red caps holding a funeral these fairies are briefly referred to as "feeorin." Sometimes given as a term for small fairies, fond of dancing, who wear green coats and red hats. "Chapter IV: Hobgoblins, monsters, giants, mermaids, apparitions, &c." p.
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