The Original Dragon of Mythology--Prototypes of the Welsh Caverns and Treasure-Hills--The Goblins of Electricity.
That he escaped being hurt for this bold act was long the marvel of the parish; but it was believed, by their going aside to come so near him, that the goblins were willing he should do as he did.
They were further believed to be serviceable in frightening away goblins of an evil sort.
Her mother watched in the fields on the Teir-nos Ysprydion, or three nights of the year when goblins are sure to be abroad; but Shui never returned.
It remains but to add, in connection with our household ghosts, that the method of exorcising such goblins in Wales is explicit.
Stand on the border of the green circle you saw there, and the boy will come out with many of the goblins to dance.
Famed among British goblins are those fairies which are immortalised in the Tale of Elidurus.
Who now would have dreamed that heart of thine could talk with goblins and with were-wolves--that those eyes of thine could bear to look on murder and those white hands find strength to do the sin?
I set little store by witchwork, goblins and their kin," said Atli.
Unclean goblins dogged the travellers and threw themselves upon the ground in their path and obstructed them in a thousand different ways.
It was as if the shadows held goblins that peered out at the intruder.
It is not the goblins gifts which can endanger you, then, but it is the use you shall make of them that you must account for.
By good luck the whimsical belief of fairies and goblinscould furnish no pretences for torturing our fellow-creatures, and therefore we have this handed down to us pure and unsophisticated.
Prince Cheung's home was suddenly attacked by goblins and devils, and when a young official came to call on him, these mysterious beings in broad daylight snatched the hat from his head and crumpled it up.
From that time the goblins departed, and now after five or six years no sign of them has reappeared.
So he viewed the place with mistrust, fearing that there might be hill goblins in it or tree devils, but a moment later some one opened the room door and shouted out, "Do you sleep here?
This is not so much due to the fact that goblins are wicked as to the fact that men are afraid of them.
If a good or "superior man" enters such a place the goblins move away, and no word of being haunted will be heard.
From the oldest Welsh people of Treborth I heard the same sort of folk-lore as we have recorded from Anglesey, except that prominence was given to a flourishing belief in Bwganod, goblins or bogies.
The goblins dropped their handfuls of gold and silver, and found themselves caught up by a great big giant who carried them off, with great long strides, to his house.
The goblins had never seen the Big World, and often asked their father to let them go with Rowley, but he always said, "Not yet, my sons.
Illustration] [Illustration] The goblinsraced to the tree.
We were told that never would the spell be broken until three goblins should enter the cave in search of a feather.
The goblins ran as fast as they could, only stopping to fill a sack which they had found with gold and silver.
At last, one day Old Black-Cap called the three goblins and said to them: "I am going to send you into the Big World to look for something which the fairies stole from me a long time ago.
Illustration] [Illustration] The goblins looked round in the darkness for the serpent of which they had heard, but they could not find it.
The goblinslooked over the fence and saw that the ground was covered with gold and silver!
He can never hurt any one again," the goblins cried with joy.
The goblins had a great friend--a green frog whose name was Rowley.
Illustration] [Illustration] The goblins thanked the lovely Princess many times, and asked her to send for them at once if they could ever help her.
The goblins did as the rabbit had told them, and when they had knocked three times on a rock a large fish raised itself slowly out of the water and said, "Why have you called me?
Wife," said he, "put these goblins in the pantry, and we will have them fried on toast for breakfast.
The land proved to be an island, and when the boat stopped on the yellow sand the goblins all jumped out.
At that moment a bright light seemed to shine, and standing near the goblins was a lovely lady.
It was, if the word of the witness is to be believed, a phantom legislative crew, resembling in kind if not in character the goblins which Rip Van Winkle encountered on his trip to the summits of the storied Catskills.
In the first tale, we are informed that she saw the goblins save their offspring from a watery grave.
But it was formerly believed that at the crowing of the cock, fairies, spirits, ghosts, and goblins rushed to their dread abodes.
Gervase of Tilbury, there were two kinds of Goblins in England, called Portuni and Grant.
All night, and into the next day, Tudur danced frantically in the Nant, but he was rescued by his master, who understood how to break the spell, and release his servant from the hold the Goblins had over him!
It agrees, likewise, with the modern popular creed respecting goblinsand their doings.
The local legend states that on this occasion, also, the goblins took the form of pigs, and a rude sculpture of such an animal, on the south side of the steeple, lends its aid to confirm and perpetuate the story.
The goblins now began to pass the magic wine round and to grow merry.
But even there they goblins see, Spooks and gnomes, and all that be Abroad upon weird Hallowe'en When all the wizards may be seen By naughty kids and grown-up folks Who like to play most wicked jokes.
In days gone by, when cows could fly And goblins rode on bears; When fairies danced upon the green And giants moped in lairs, There lived alone upon a shelf A tinsie, winsie little elf.
It's a hard ride through the pass and--and there may be a lot of goblins up there where the old woman keeps herself.
She waves her hand: all the goblins and thunder-workers in this neck of the woods hustle up to see what's the matter.
Goblins and their kindred interested me much more than the ugly Saints of the Pictorial Church History,--much more than even the slender angels of my French religious prints, who unpleasantly reminded me of Cousin Jane.
I then imagined those gods to resemble in some sort the fairies and the goblins of my nursery-tales, or the fairies in the ballads of Sir Walter Scott.
But in spite of such injunctions I was doomed to learn, quite unexpectedly, something about goblins much grimmer than any which had been haunting me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goblins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
