[Christine’s Halloween Monster and Faery List]

Goblins 5

Gnome Korandon rules the underground mountain kingdom of gold & jewels in the center of the earth 2 1/2 feet tall, clad in a mantle, spear, diamond crown, platinum Ring of Kings with a large diamond worn by the Princes of Atholl: one of the Three Relics of Britain, on a gold & ivory throne, He abducts Abeille by the riverbank, crowns her Princess of the Gnomes & makes a pair of pearly shoes for the goddess. Wife Sheila: Vulva changed him into a tiny, wrinkled black gnome; placing him on top a clay nest lined with dried moss at Deer’s Leap Mountain to hatch six eggs of stone. He travels to the kingdom of the Undines on a crow to free Abeille’s friend Youri [Hoarn: Iron] from his crystal cage.Bodach (Old Man) Bodach Glas (Grey Man) Bugbear, Bug-A-Boo, Tad bade Bog (Father God) Nearan (Gnomes: Knowledge)
(pron. buh-THAHK or budagh) Scottish goblin who looks like a shriveled dark, grey, old man and slides down chimneys to kidnap children. He is a death omen in this form. In the Story of Little King Loc he has long white hair down to his knees and is the messenger of the bocans. He fetches the goddess Aibell milk, honey, and bread made in the bocans’ oven under the earth. His companions are Dig, Pic, Pau and Rug and they make toys. Earth spirits who live underground. Dwarf-like old men who live for a thousand years. They fly on the backs of ravens. (13, 20, 31, 107)

Dochabhac, Die Zwergen, Les Nains (Black Dwarves) Maigean (Dwarf)
(pron. MAH-kin, MY-kin, MAY-gun) British Isles version of the Icelandic duergar-dwergar. These are solitary faeries that are evil and treacherous. They are part of Scotland’s Unseelie Court and go traveling by night. Maigean refers to a dwarf or a little child learning to walk. (42, 107, 255)


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